Uncovering blind spots in urban carbon management: the role of consumption-based carbon accounting in Bristol, UK.

ABSTRACT: The rapid urbanisation of the twentieth century, along with the spread of high-consumption urban lifestyles, has led to cities becoming the dominant drivers of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing these impacts is crucial, but production-based frameworks of carbon measurement and mitigation-which encompass only a limited part of cities' carbon footprints-are much more developed and widely applied than consumption-based approaches that consider the embedded carbon effectively imported into a city. Frequently, therefore, cities are left blind to the importance of their wider consumption-related climate impacts, while at the same time left lacking effective tools to reduce them. To explore the relevance of these issues, we implement methodologies for assessing production- a

SUBMITTER: Millward-Hopkins J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6991983 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature