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Low Carbon City:
A Guidebook for City Planners and Practitioners
policy making and planning. Nevertheless, globally, city planners are now increasingly paying attention
to climate change for three key reasons. First, the participation of cities is vital to achieving national
environment and development goals. Second, since the cities hold most of the financial, institutional and
intellectual capital; their active participation is essential in formulating and implementing national climate
change mitigation and adaptation policies. Finally, cities are where sizeable co-benefits of climate change,
such as improvements in air quality and traffic congestion, and reduced heat island effects, would accrue
by aligning climate change and development policies.
1.3 Aims and audience
The principal aim of the guidebook is to provide basic guidance to city level policy makers, urban planners,
transport planners and consultants who are collectively referred to as “city planners”, on:
a) How to incorporate globally agreed upon climate change objectives, targets and policies in long-
term city level development plans.
b) How to align national development and climate change agendas
with city level development
plans.
c) How to delineate win-win options that deliver multiple co-benefits, besides climate change benefits,
such as air quality improvement, improved energy access, reduced congestion in the transport
system, and improved national energy security.
Several key messages have been restated and highlighted in the guidebook.
1.4 Chapters
The guidebook comprises six chapters following the introduction. Chapter 2 provides a quick primer on
the science of global climate change. Chapter 3 presents: i) a brief history of global climate negotiations,
ii) the meaning of the term ‘low carbon’ within the context of the currently agreed on long-term global
climate
stabilisation target, iii) corresponding global emissions targets
and carbon price trajectories,
and iv) a basic understanding of low carbon scenarios and alternate development pathways (i.e., plans,
policies and strategies) to achieve these scenarios. Chapter 4 explains what low carbon development
means to India, with a clear focus on the cities. This chapter is based the methodology for a national level
assessment of low carbon scenarios for India (Shukla and Dhar, 2011). Chapter 5 focuses on: i) what low
carbon development at the national level means for the cities, and ii) how to align low carbon city planning
with national low carbon development pathways. Chapter 6 links mitigation with adaptation, and presents
framework for climate compatible development, and Chapter 7 provides the conclusion.
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