Challenges and Opportunities for Transition to Low Carbon Cities

Abstract

Cities are already under pressures from several sustainability challenges. Raising income, improving livelihood, health, education, and safety, providing basic infrastructure provision such as water, mobility, energy, and housing services, and ensuring clean air, land, and water are some of them. All of these, and many others, compete for scarce financial, human, and intellectual resources. But many of these also have direct bearing on a city's carbon emissions, and investments in these services may be undermined if the contributions to and ramifications of climate change remain unchecked.