Conveners
SS_09 GOVERNING THE “CARBON NEUTRAL CITY”: BARRIERS AND ENABLERS FOR AN INTEGRATED CLIMATE GOVERNANCE IN CITIES
- Eda Yucesoy (Istanbul Technical University)
- Eloise Deshayes (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya)
As cities increasingly commit to achieving carbon neutrality, they engage in greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories to measure their emissions. These inventories are guided by international frameworks, such as the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) and primarily rely on production-based carbon accounting (PBCA).
However, growing claims, both from the...
European cities are reacting to the climate crisis. Climate planning has exponentially increased in recent years, but a gap remains between planning and implementing climate actions. While many cities and regions have outlined ambitious strategies, far fewer have turned these plans into tangible results. There is a need to act faster to keep global warming within 2ºC, addressing mitigation and...
Cities across the globe are actively working to reduce their carbon footprint, with a common approach being the development of neighbourhood and district level pilots. However, whilst such interventions are well meaning and grounded in a will to reduce the city’s carbon impact, the data to validate and inform such approaches is often lacking. To this end, many cities rely upon city-wide carbon...
This presentation focuses on how digital tools can support cities in achieving carbon neutrality by providing smarter decision-making frameworks. Using examples from the UP2030 project in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district, it highlights tools like “Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) and Urban Building Transport Energy Modeling (UBTEM): AI-based Digital Decisionmaking Tool for Decarbonization”....
Post-disaster recovery is a critical juncture for reimagining urban systems to address sustainability, resilience, and climate neutrality. Ukraine, facing extensive wartime destruction, provides a unique opportunity to explore how recovery efforts can act as a catalyst for systemic transformation. This study examines the integration of carbon-neutral goals into urban reconstruction strategies,...
The firestorms in Los Angeles January 2025 demonstrate how cities, even in the richest of all nations, are increasingly vulnerable. Then it seems this vulnerability is amplified by social extremism (blaming migrants, diversion of social funds, also looting): climate denial (complete rejection of the scientific consensus): financial hijack (price-inflation for emergency accommodation): and...
