In April 2023, the Belt and Road Sustainable Cities Alliance, a platform jointly initiated by Energy Foundation China in early 2019, released this report compiling cases for low carbon city development.

Using the alliance as a cooperative platform for sustainable development among cities, the report brings together Chinese and international think tanks to gather, organize, and showcase typical urban cases in many parts of the world that demonstrate practices in low carbon development. As a first batch, this report includes 10 representative cases: Chengdu and Meishan in China, Portland in the United States, Masdar in the United Arab Emirates, cities in Colombia, Santiago in Chile, Tokyo in Japan, Peterborough in the United Kingdom, Penang in Malaysia, and Linkoping in Sweden. These cases feature major aspects of low carbon cities, including urban planning, low carbon industries, sustainable transportation, clean energy, and low carbon technologies, aiming to provide references and insights for urban policymakers and decision-makers.