Low Carbon City Development

We work with Chinese cities to deepen and scale up successful clean energy models through peer-to-peer networking with US counterparts. This PCA program component integrates lessons learned in Chinese cities and builds on ISC's Climate Leadership Academy (CLA) model, which equips municipal leaders in the US with the knowledge, resources, and skills to tackle cities' toughest challenges in the fight against global warming. Our first China CLA in July 2010 in Guangzhou and Nanjing focused on low-carbon planning, including GHG accounting.

Drawing on WRI's experience, the program will also go deeper in select cities to explore ways of integrating climate action strategies into cities' master plans, how to establish effective municipal energy efficiency financing mechanisms, and how to measure GHG emissions at the city level.

In all these activities, we are building awareness of the local and global impacts of climate change and demonstrating how joint US-China initiatives can produce practical results in scaling up climate mitigation. For information, please contact program manager Pan Tao at pantao@iscchina.org.