Emission reduction strategy between Chinese and foreign metropolitan areas

Jun Wang,E Baltrėnaitė-Gedienė,C Iticescu

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202015803003

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Abstract

Because of the important position of metropolitan areas in the national economy, this paper puts forward the important responsibility of metropolitan areas in a country’s emission reduction task. Taking Chicago Metropolitan Area, Manchester Metropolitan Area and Tokyo Metropolitan Area as the research objects, this paper discusses the action of reducing emissions in international metropolitan area from three aspects: formulation of emission reduction targets, specific emission reduction strategies and regional coordination mechanism. Then, by comparing the emission reduction actions of the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan areas in China, this paper analyses the Enlightenment of the emission reduction of the international metropolitan areas to China, and puts forward the areas that need to be further strengthened in the emission reduction of the metropolitan areas in China.

Highlights

Metropolitan area is a form of urban area when urbanization develops to a higher stage, and it is a network urban agglomeration with central city as its core [1, 2]
In 2015, China submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change a document entitled "Enhanced Actions on Climate Change: China’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions", which promised to reduce carbon emissions per unit GDP by 60-65% by 2030 compared with 2005
Because the metropolitan areas need unified targets and cooperation at the regional level in emission reduction, this paper will focus on the efforts made by metropolitan areas at home and abroad in terms of emission reduction targets, action measures and coordination mechanisms to explore the rational path of reducing emission in metropolitan areas

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Introduction

Metropolitan area is a form of urban area when urbanization develops to a higher stage, and it is a network urban agglomeration with central city as its core [1, 2]. The content related to carbon emissions is to promote the prevention and control of regional air pollution from the aspect of regional ecological environment protection, to promote energy structure adjustment through "West-toEast Gas Transmission" and "West-to-East Electricity Transmission", to implement total coal use control to improve regional atmospheric environmental quality, to propose that by 2015, sulfur dioxide emissions in the Yangtze River Delta region will be reduced by 8% [17].

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