Urban Planning for Carbon Neutrality

开创低碳城市之路：城市规划作为碳中和的催化剂

Pioneering Pathways: Urban Planning as a Catalyst for Carbon Neutral Cities

随着全球气候危机的加剧，城市正处于对抗碳排放的前线。通过创新的城市规划战略，先锋城市正在展示如何为实现碳中和铺平道路，同时培育可持续的宜居社区。

As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, cities find themselves at the forefront of the battle against carbon emissions. Through innovative urban planning strategies, pioneering municipalities are demonstrating how to pave the way towards carbon neutrality while fostering sustainable, livable communities.

减少排放的关键城市再生策略

Key Urban Regeneration Strategies for Emissions Reduction

有效的城市更新针对城市系统的九个关键要素，为催化脱碳提供了重要途径：

Effective urban regeneration offers a critical pathway for catalyzing decarbonization by targeting nine key elements of the urban system:

• 碳源：建筑、能源、交通、工业
• 碳汇：绿地、水体、土壤
• 影响两者：城市布局、垃圾管理
• Carbon sources: Buildings, energy, transportation, industry
• Carbon sinks: Green spaces, water bodies, soil
• Influencing both: Urban layout, waste management

通过可持续方式（如翻新、再利用和改造）实施这些多管齐下的策略，而不是拆除，可以最大限度地减少排放，同时避免产生材料浪费和固有的碳排放等抵消影响。

Implementing these multi-pronged strategies through sustainable modes like renovation, adaptive reuse and retrofitting – rather than demolition – maximizes emissions reduction while avoiding offsetting impacts like material waste and embodied carbon emissions.

建模最佳路径

Modeling Optimal Pathways

为了找到最有效的解决方案，研究人员采用了诸如低排放分析平台（LEAP）等先进的建模技术，模拟像上海这样的城市在未来不同政策情景下情况。这些研究强调实现碳中和的理想途径包括：

To chart the most effective course, researchers have employed advanced modelling techniques like the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) to simulate different future policy scenarios for cities like Shanghai. These studies highlight that an optimal pathway to carbon neutrality involves:

• 通过在建筑、工业和交通系统中实施积极的节能政策和技术升级，使所有部门的能源强度平均每年降低 3.5%。 
• 通过迅速扩大可再生能源、电气化、生物质能源和碳捕获与封存（CCS）等清洁能源技术的部署，实现碳强度年均降低6.5%。 
• 优先推动第三产业（服务业）从高排放活动向可持续、高科技和知识密集型产业的快速转型。
• 配合强有力的城市绿化和基于自然的解决方案，通过城市森林、湿地恢复和其他生态措施增强碳汇能力。
• Achieving an average 3.5% annual reduction in energy intensity across all sectors through aggressive efficiency policies and technology upgrades for buildings, industries and transportation systems.
• Delivering an average 6.5% annual reduction in carbon intensity by rapidly scaling deployment of clean energy technologies like renewables, electrification, biomass energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
• Prioritizing a rapid transition of the tertiary (service) sector away from emissions-intensive activities towards sustainable, high-tech and knowledge-based industries.
• Complementing energy policies with robust urban greening and nature-based solutions that enhance carbon sequestration capabilities through urban forests, wetlands restoration and other ecological measures.

主要影响因素

Key Influencing Factors

几个关键因素决定了城市实现碳中和的理想路径：

Several critical factors shape the optimal pathways for cities to achieve carbon neutrality:

• 能源强度降低：在住宅、商业建筑、工业设施和交通领域实施广泛的能源效率措施，以减少每单位经济产出的能源消耗。
• 清洁能源转型：迅速扩大太阳能、风能和地热能等可再生能源的使用，同时促进供暖/制冷和交通的电气化，以及氢气和生物质等低碳燃料的使用。
• 碳封存：利用城市周边的自然解决方案，如城市森林、公园、湿地和可持续农业，以增强城市范围内的碳捕获和储存能力。
• 产业结构调整：从排放量大的制造业活动转向可持续的高科技产业和以服务为基础的经济活动。
• 综合空间规划：通过全面的土地利用规划优化城市空间布局、交通网络和能源基础设施，以最小化排放。
• 生态系统保护：通过强有力的环境保护政策防止森林、草原和农田等现有碳汇进一步退化和丧失。
• Energy Intensity Reduction: Implementing wide-ranging energy efficiency measures across residential/commercial buildings, industrial facilities and transportation to reduce energy consumption per unit of economic output.
• Clean Energy Transition: Rapidly scaling renewable energy sources like solar, wind and geothermal, while promoting electrification of heating/cooling and mobility, coupled with low-carbon fuels like hydrogen and biomass.
• Carbon Sequestration: Leveraging nature-based solutions like urban forests, parks, wetlands and sustainable agriculture to enhance carbon capture and storage capabilities within city boundaries.
• Industrial Restructuring: Transitioning away from emissions-intensive manufacturing activities towards sustainable, high-tech industries and service-based economic activities.
• Integrated Spatial Planning: Optimizing urban spatial layout, transportation networks and energy infrastructure through holistic land-use planning to minimize emissions.
• Ecosystem Conservation: Preventing further degradation and loss of existing carbon sinks like forests, grasslands and croplands through robust environmental protection policies.

来源：Progetto CMR 荆州古城综合改造规划 

Source: Progetto CMR Jingzhou Ancient City Integrated Regeneration Plan 

克服多方面挑战

Overcoming Multifaceted Challenges

虽然实现城市碳中和的途径已逐渐明朗，但城市在实施过程中仍面临诸多挑战：

While the pathways towards urban carbon neutrality are being illuminated, cities face a multitude of challenges in implementation:

• 融资：为清洁能源、绿色基础设施、建筑改造和可持续交通方面的大规模投资确保充足的资金可能是一个重大障碍。
• 政策与治理：协调各级政府和利益相关者的政策、法规和激励措施，推动协调的气候行动是一项复杂的工作。
• 技术部署：技术限制和高昂的成本会阻碍可再生能源、能源储存、碳捕获和绿色氢能等清洁技术的快速部署。
• 行为改变：克服社会惰性和根深蒂固的消费模式，采用可持续的生活方式和减少能源需求仍然是一个障碍。
• 产业转型：管理从排放密集型产业向可持续产业过渡所带来的经济混乱，同时确保受影响的工人和社区实现公正过渡。
• 数据与监测： 开发强大的数据收集、排放监测和进度跟踪系统，为决策和战略调整提供信息。
• 生态系统压力： 在快速城市化过程中，平衡发展需求与森林和湿地等自然碳汇的保护。
• 应对这些多方面的挑战需要创新的融资机制、强化的治理框架、公私合作、劳动力再培训、公众宣传活动和国际知识共享。
• Financing: Securing adequate capital for large-scale investments in clean energy, green infrastructure, building retrofits and sustainable transportation can be a significant barrier.
• Policy and Governance: Aligning policies, regulations and incentives across different levels of government and stakeholders to drive coordinated climate action is a complex undertaking.
• Technology Deployment: Rapidly scaling deployment of clean technologies like renewable energy, energy storage, carbon capture and green hydrogen at the required pace can be hindered by technical limitations and high costs.
• Behavioral Change: Overcoming societal inertia and ingrained consumption patterns to adopt sustainable lifestyles and reduce energy demand remains an obstacle.
• Industrial Transitions: Managing the economic disruptions of transitioning away from emissions-intensive industries towards sustainable sectors while ensuring a just transition for affected workers and communities.
• Data and Monitoring: Developing robust systems for data collection, emissions monitoring and progress tracking to inform decision-making and strategy adjustments.
• Ecosystem Pressures: Balancing development needs with conservation of natural carbon sinks like forests and wetlands amid rapid urbanization.
• Addressing these multifaceted challenges requires innovative financing mechanisms, enhanced governance frameworks, public-private collaboration, workforce retraining, public awareness campaigns and international knowledge sharing.

三步法 – 嘉善规划案例研究

The 3 Steps’ Method – Jiashan Masterplan Case Study

仲欧脱碳科技有限公司团队采用三步战略方法处理碳中和问题：

– 评估

– 最小化

– 抵消

CNEUCN team approaches carbon neutrality matter with a 3 steps strategic method: 

– Asses 

– Minimize 

– Offset 

从深入评估开始，评估实体的实际碳足迹，同时考虑所有温室气体。

应进行全面评估，包括在该实体内消费但在其他地方生产的服务和商品。然后，从这一基准情景出发，结合当地情况和经济可持续性，选择基于气候的战略和绿色技术，通过特定的解决方案来最小化碳足迹。应识别和选择所有可能的综合解决方案，以建立无碳城市/地区/公司。这些解决方案包括“被动型”二氧化碳工业和城市创新设置。

在这一步中，从最初的阶段到项目完成，重塑实体能源模式以及整个规划过程是至关重要的。

最后，为实现脱碳，剩余排放将通过排放交易计划进行抵消，例如投资可再生能源、被动式建筑和其他位置之外的碳中和解决方案。因此，一个地区、一个城市、一个区域或一个公司总部被转变成一个“虚拟碳汇”。

由 Progetto CMR 公司领导，我们的合作伙伴共同开发的嘉善中意区总体规划，就是一个说明了如何通过 “三步法 ”在城市区域实现真正的碳中和的具体例子。

It starts from a deep assessment to evaluate the actual entity’s carbon footprint, considering all Greenhouse gasses. 

It should be done a comprehensive evaluation including services and goods consumed within the entity but produced elsewhere. 

Then, starting from this baseline scenario, the climate-based strategies and green technologies will be selected to minimize the carbon footprint through ad-hoc solutions taking into account the local context and economic sustainability. 

All possible integrated solutions should be identified and selected to build a carbon free city/area/company. They include “passive” CO2 industrial and urban innovative setups. 

In this step, it is essential to rethink the design of the entity energy patterns as well as the entire planning process, from its earliest stages through the project completion.

Finally, to achieve decarbonization, residual emissions are offset through emission trading schemes such as investments in renewables, passive buildings and other carbon-neutral solutions outside the location. 

As a result, a region, a city, a district or a company HQs is transformed into a “virtual carbon sink”.

The Jiashan Sino Italian District Masterplan, developed by a group of our partners, leaded by Progetto CMR, is a concrete example about the implementation of the 3 Steps method to reach true carbon neutrality in a district urban district.

来源：Progetto CMR：嘉善中意区总体规划

Source: Progetto CMR: Jiashan Sino Italian District Masterplan

总结

Final Comment

仲欧脱碳科技（CNEUCN）为在这个复杂的领域中探索的城市和公司提供宝贵的专业知识。我们独特的跨境地位提供全面的服务:

CNEUCN offers invaluable expertise to cities and companies navigating this complex landscape. Our unique cross-border position provides a comprehensive suite of services:

• 深入了解两个市场的政策、法规和最佳实践，以优化战略和投资决策。
• 在可再生能源领域成功引导市场进入、扩展和项目实施的良好业绩表现。
• – 在构建项目和合作伙伴关系方面提供专业支持，以便在向碳中和的重要过渡中实现影响和回报的最大化。
• In-depth understanding of policies, regulations and best practices across both markets to optimize strategies and investment decisions.
• Proven track record guiding successful market entry, expansion and project implementation in the renewable energy sector.
• Specialized support structuring projects and partnerships to maximize impact and returns in this vital transition towards carbon neutrality.

CNEUCN 拥有一支由城市规划师、能源专家、环境科学家和金融分析师组成的多学科团队，随时准备成为您的战略合作伙伴。我们可以帮助您率先实现碳中和城市，同时释放可持续增长的潜力。。

With our multidisciplinary team of urban planners, energy experts, environmental scientists and financial analysts, CNEUCN stands ready to be your strategic partner. We can help spearhead the path to carbon neutral cities while unlocking sustainable growth potential.

通过整合创新的城市规划战略，促进跨部门合作，并利用CNEUCN的专业知识，城市和组织可以率先向碳中和过渡，同时创造可持续的、充满活力的社区，造福后代。

By integrating innovative urban planning strategies, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and leveraging CNEUCN’s specialized knowledge, cities and organizations can pioneer the vital transition to carbon neutrality while creating sustainable, vibrant communities for future generations.

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Please contact us for a 1 to 1 direct discussion by sending email to [email protected]. 

仲欧脱碳科技有限公司中欧碳中和可持续城市发展平台项目将由为此项目成立的同名私营公司运营，旨在通过聚集各方优势，针对每一个课题制定出量身打造的解决方案，以全面和包容的工作方式为中国和欧洲的碳中和之路添砖加瓦。

仲欧脱碳科技 有限公司该平台将发挥积极和创新的作用，为实现碳中和所需的构想、塑造、设计和实现转型提供服务。

China Europe Carbon Neutral Technology aims to support and substantially contribute to China and Europe path towards carbon neutrality in a holistic and inclusive way by gathering all the stakeholders and creating solutions for each challenge.

China Europe Carbon Neutral Technology will play an active and innovative role in providing services to conceive, shape, design and accomplish the transitions needed to achieve carbon neutrality.