Global Carbon Project’s Urban and Regional Carbon Management Initiatives

Shobhakar DhakalExecutive Director, Global Carbon Project

www.globalcarbonproject.org www.gcp-urcm.org

Hosted by CSIRO/Australia and NIES/Japan

ESSP

Goals:• Global scientific networking in urban

carbon topic• Scientific syntheses and new research• Science-policy interfacing• Creating scientific information resource

base

Theme 3

• Conf/Symposium/workshop:12 events since 2006• Journal special issue, edited book, syntheses papers• Urban energy and carbon modeling forum• Web-based scientific information repository• Contribution to international assessments and reports– IPCC activities to WGIII– World Energy Outlook 2008 of IEA; Global Energy

Assessment; China Council Taskforce; Assessment Report on Cities and Climate Change; World Bank benchmarking of City’s CO2 emissions; Consensus Panel on Low Carbon Cities of Academy of Sciences of South Africa

• New research: – Urban carbon quantifications for direct and indirect carbon

flows in cities– Evaluating city carbon footprints, city carbon responsibility– Scenarios, development pathways and carbon consequences

Our activities (www.gcp-urcm.org)

Future research and activities• Focus on indirect carbon flow in cities and urban function

(system boundary, spatial extent and magnitude) and its policy implications– Facilitating more indirect city carbon flow studies in South and South-East

Asian cities• Urban energy and carbon estimation for India and scenario

analyses for few Indian cities • Events till March 2010

– Carbon Governance in Asia Workshop with UNU and IHDP– GCP-IIASA-Potsdam workshop (under planning)– South Asian low Carbon city workshop (under planning)– Two sessions in ISIE ConAccount and ISIE Asia Pacific Conference (Urban

metabolism and carbon modeling)