In the face of climate change and rapid urbanization, there is an urgent need for sub-regional cooperation on low-carbon city development. North-East Asian countries have introduced policies and practices on low-carbon city development at different levels of government and using various policy tools. There is also great scope of available and emerging knowledge and practices for the countries in the region to learn from.
This report analyses and compares the low-carbon city policies and practices of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, with the goal of identifying sector-specific and city-specific good practices that may be instructive to researchers and policymakers in the wider North-East Asia region. It examines key national-level carbon mitigation policies and sector-specific actions, reviews top-down and bottom-up low-carbon city policy design and implementation mechanisms, and describes 15 case studies on greenhouse gas emission reductions with specific insights.
Report insights will be used in North-East Asia Low Carbon City Platform (NEA-LCCP) information-sharing activities and to promote regional cooperation on low-carbon development and climate action.