Financing urban low-carbon transition: The catalytic role of a city-level special fund in shanghai

Peng, Yuan; Bai, Xuemei

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124514

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“…This is also evident in the extensive number of carbon prices (in different forms) across national and subnational jurisdictions [55]. There is also the recognition of the potential of local carbon markets for GHG emissions reduction in local areas [56] such as the examples from Lahti [57]. Nevertheless, as previously shown, there is a recognition of the importance of the carbon price value.…”

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confidence: 98%

Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Ferreira¹,

Dias

Liu³

2022

Sustainability

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Debates on carbon costs and carbon pricing to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are emerging as cities develop local policies and programs to achieve carbon neutrality. This paper focuses on how cities formulate economic instruments and adopt carbon pricing experiments to support their climate objectives. Extensive literature is available on science-policymaking interface Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) and on the two mainstream approaches of carbon cost formulation—Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) and Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC). Although, the literature on how governments develop climate policy instruments, particularly towards a local carbon cost, is recent. We start by reviewing these essential concepts and tools for carbon cost formulation. We then critically review a set of local carbon pricing experiments, totaling fourteen international cities, and confirm a great demand for scientifically robust, verifiable, and transferable carbon cost methodologies at the local level. We thus propose an approach to assess the short-term technology cost of CO2 emission reduction in the mobility sector in Matosinhos municipality, Portugal. Our approach shows that a carbon cost methodology at the local level with robust, verifiable, and transferable results is possible. We advocate for a methodological advance to estimate versatile CO2 prices suitable for local conditions.

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Section: Case Study Characterizationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Ferreira¹,

Dias

Liu³

2022

Sustainability

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“…China has implemented three batches of LCCP to decrease energy consumption and carbon emissions in cities. Scholars have summarized policy measures in five areas: planning design, supporting policies, emissions inventories, low-carbon industries, and residential energy consumption (Wang et al, 2018 ; Westman and Broto, 2018 ; Peng and Bai, 2021 ). Many pilot cities have launched initiatives to decrease residential energy-related emissions, such as popularizing scientific knowledge, promoting low-carbon lifestyles, conducting campus education, and organizing energy-saving activities (Zhao et al, 2016 ; Li et al, 2018 ).…”

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Drivers of behaviors: How do city pilots shape residential energy-related emissions through perceptions?

Hua

Li²

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Residential energy consumption, as a major source of emissions in cities, is also a policy priority for the construction of low-carbon cities. The occurrence of residential energy saving and emissions mitigation behaviors is closely related to low-carbon perceptions. Against this background, cities make efforts to shape residential low-carbon perceptions. In order to investigate residential energy consumption and carbon emissions, this study takes low-carbon city pilots as the policy context and establishes the difference-in-difference model on Chinese prefecture-level cities. Theory of planned behavior is utilized to analyze the influence mechanism of residential low-carbon perceptions. Results indicated that (1) low-carbon city pilots can decrease residential energy-related emissions and pass a variety of robustness tests. Multiple pilot eligibility and policy lag would reinforce policy effects. (2) Mechanism analysis shows that low-carbon city pilots can strengthen residential behavioral attitudes, establish subjective norms, and adjust perceived behavioral control. All three mechanisms together shape residential low-carbon perceptions, which consequently promote energy-related emissions mitigation behaviors. (3) Due to differences in geographic location and city size, there is heterogeneity for the policy effects of low-carbon city pilots. For the future research, it is necessary to expand the scope of residential energy-related emissions, find out the potential influencing factors, and track the policy effects in long-term.

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“…Cities and companies are key actors responsible for anthropogenic impacts across local, regional, and global scales. At the same time, cities and companies have considerable potential to take actions that can transform trajectories for the better and are potentially influential actors in supporting sustainability transitions 6 . The impetus for a focus on cities and corporations can be traced to a systems view of leverage points, change, and agency 7,8 .…”

Section: Mainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impetus for a focus on cities and corporations can be traced to a systems view of leverage points, change, and agency 7,8 . Cities and companies have the collective power to take and influence structural decisions 6 and can be more nimble and willing to act than national governments. Cities and companies can also be vibrant hubs for experimentation 9 in enabling low-carbon transitions 10,11 .…”

Section: Mainmentioning

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Catalysing city-company collaborations to operate within Earth System boundaries

Kılkış¹,

Bai²,

Crona³

et al. 2022

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Cities and companies have great potential to reduce pressures on Earth system boundaries. Science-based target setting has emerged as a powerful vehicle, but its uptake is still limited. Moreover, cities and companies develop their targets separately even though many large cities and companies colocate. Focusing on the top emitting 200 cities and 500 companies, here we analyse the current state and potential of adopting science-based targets for climate. Of these key actors, 110 cities and 22 companies with science-based targets can eliminate up to 3.41 GtCO2eq of annual emissions. Further, we argue that if cities and companies keep abreast of ambitious target levels, then this reduction potential can increase up to 5.70 GtCO2eq with a factor of 1.7. We provide an illustrative roadmap with entry points and discuss the implications. Our findings elucidate a previously untapped potential for catalysing city-company collaborations to accelerate transformations for operating within Earth system boundaries.

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Financing urban low-carbon transition: The catalytic role of a city-level special fund in shanghai

Cited by 30 publications

References 73 publications

Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Adopting Carbon Pricing Tools at the Local Level: A City Case Study in Portugal

Drivers of behaviors: How do city pilots shape residential energy-related emissions through perceptions?

Catalysing city-company collaborations to operate within Earth System boundaries

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