Other emissions (food, consumption-based emissions etc.)

In this lecture, we cover the remaining emissions of cities. This raises the key question of the definition of the emissions of a city.

Required reading

• The problem with net-zero emissions targets, a 2019 text by Prof. Duncan McLaren on Carbon Brief.
• Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories, Executive Summary

Defining city GHG emissions

References

• How to measure GHG emissions of a city, explained by C40
• The differences between consumption-based emissions and production-based emissions explained by C40
• A comparison of emission inventories of different cities

Production-based emissions

References

• The peak in cities emissions (and its update)
• How to reduce emissions of cities
• A nice video showing New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Consumption-based emissions

The definition of consumption-based emissions

Reducing consumption in cities

References

• The report by C40 that I am mentioning several times: The future of urban consumption in a 1.5°C world
• A previous work on the same subject: Consumption-based GHG emissions of C40 cities