Low-Carbon Development Path for China’s New-Type Urbanization: Challenges, Strategies and Practices
Low-Carbon Development Path for China’s New-Type Urbanization: Challenges, Strategies and Practices
Publish Date:
Apr 14, 2014
The unprecedented pace and scale of China’s urbanization has brought many benefits to China, including increased consumption and employment rates, improved living standards, and accelerated economic growth. Yet at the same time, this rapid change has brought environmental and socioeconomic costs.
This report addresses the broad question of how China can avoid the “carbon lock-in” effect in its current stage of urbanization. To help facilitate an economically and environmentally sustainable urbanization pattern, this report focuses on three main fields: effective land use, green transportation, and efficient energy consumption.
