[HTML][HTML] Carbon-neutral cities: Critical review of theory and practice

A Huovila, H Siikavirta, CA Rozado, J Rökman… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon neutrality has become central in policy discourse and cities' climate actions are
crucial to achieve this goal. Consequently, many cities have already published ambitious …

Making the case for an International Decade of Radiocarbon

TI Eglinton, HD Graven… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Radiocarbon (14C) is a critical tool for understanding the global carbon cycle. During the
Anthropocene, two new processes influenced 14C in atmospheric, land and ocean carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Direct observations of CO2 emission reductions due to COVID-19 lockdown across European urban districts

G Nicolini, G Antoniella, F Carotenuto… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The measures taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 in 2020 included restrictions of
people's mobility and reductions in economic activities. These drastic changes in daily life …

Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO2 Emissions

T Lauvaux, KR Gurney, NL Miles, KJ Davis… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Global fossil fuel carbon dioxide (FFCO2) emissions will be dictated to a great degree by the
trajectory of emissions from urban areas. Conventional methods to quantify urban FFCO2 …

Spatio-temporal analysis of decoupling and spatial clustering decomposition of CO2 emissions in 335 Chinese cities

W Li, Z Ji, F Dong - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
The decoupling of urban development levels (UDL) and CO 2 emissions is an essential
representation of sustainable urban development. The spatial decomposition of urban CO 2 …

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions over metropolitan areas from space: A multi-model analysis of OCO-2 data over Lahore, Pakistan

R Lei, S Feng, A Danjou, G Broquet, D Wu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban areas, where more than 55% of the global population gathers, contribute more than
70% of anthropogenic fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO 2ff) emissions. Accurate quantification …

Exploring the discrepancy between top-down and bottom-up approaches of fine spatio-temporal vehicular CO2 emission in an urban road network

PL Fung, O Al-Jaghbeer, L Pirjola, H Aaltonen… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Road transport emissions of high spatial and temporal resolution are useful for greenhouse
gas emission assessment in local action plans. However, estimating these high-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Continued increases of gross primary production in urban areas during 2000–2016

Y Cui, X Xiao, J Dong, Y Zhang, Y Qin… - Journal of Remote …, 2022 - spj.science.org
Urbanization affects vegetation within city administrative boundary and nearby rural areas.
Gross primary production (GPP) of vegetation in global urban areas is one of important …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying emissions of a city with the Copernicus Anthropogenic Monitoring satellite mission

G Kuhlmann, D Brunner, G Broquet… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
We investigate the potential of the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide (CO 2)
Monitoring (CO2M) mission, a proposed constellation of CO 2 imaging satellites, to estimate …

An emerging GHG estimation approach can help cities achieve their climate and sustainability goals

KL Mueller, T Lauvaux, KR Gurney… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A credible assessment of a city's greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policies requires a valid
account of a city's emissions. However, questions persist as to whether cities''self-reported …