Archives: climate

This report adapts the concept of MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) from international climate policy to the field of territorial and spatial planning, extending its original scope. It evaluates the current application of MRV in urban spatial planning, identifies key challenges, and provides actionable recommendations—all through an assessment of selected local spatial plans in China.

The report outlines a strategy to integrate climate change considerations into the city’s territorial spatial planning. Aiming to achieve national “dual carbon” goals (carbon peak by 2030, carbon neutrality by 2060) and enhance urban resilience, the report evaluates Jiaxing’s current greenhouse gas emissions and proposes a multi-level control approach for city-wide and district-level implementation. The core strategy focuses on five key pillars: optimising the energy mix, fostering sustainable industrial development, advancing green transportation systems, promoting low-carbon building technologies, and enhancing ecological carbon sinks.

This report examines resilient transportation planning in Xiamen under the challenges of climate change, focusing on how urban transport systems can better adapt to extreme weather conditions. It analyses existing vulnerabilities in infrastructure and mobility systems and proposes strategies to enhance resilience through improved network connectivity, emergency response capacity, and climate-adaptive spatial planning. The report highlights the importance of integrating resilience into existing planning frameworks and recommends reinforcing monitoring systems, adopting smart technologies, and promoting coordinated governance to ensure transport system stability and rapid recovery.

This study establishes a technical framework for low-carbon and resilient detailed spatial planning in Xi’an. It clarifies the transmission mechanisms of “Dual-Carbon” (carbon peak by 2030, carbon neutrality by 2060) and resilience objectives from master plans to block-level implementation. Using a localised carbon accounting model, the research analyses the baseline emission and sequestration characteristics across industrial, residential, regeneration, and ecological urban units. Based on these findings, it constructs a differentiated regulatory indicator system specifically tailored to the unique attributes of each unit type. Finally, the study formulates mitigation and resilience strategies focusing on spatial layout, sustainable construction, renewable energy, and green mobility. Ultimately, this framework delivers standardised operational guidelines, providing a robust technical foundation to support Xi’an’s sustainable urban development.