Urban Emissions and Climate Action: Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2026) | Viewed by 4124
Special Issue Editors
Interests: low carbon transportation studies in developing countries; urban air pollution studies in developing cities, includes data mining, urban air pollution modeling, and analyses of policy/programs and their impact on urban air pollution; developing air quality standards (ambient and emission, national or local level, and urban air quality management)
Interests: urban climate; urban meteorology; urban pollution; urban planning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will produce a special report on climate change and cities for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). This call for papers aims to support the literature on relevant topics. Considering the gap in the literature regarding developing cities in the global south, we encourage more submissions of articles about those regions. The issue of climate change and cities recognizes urban areas as critical fields for addressing sustainability issues and potentially effective leverage points for major challenges such as climate and resilience actions. Experimenting on cities and climate change always faces an unruly and messy real-life societal context; a plurality of actors and opinions hinders the fulfillment of experimental goals. The multi-faceted interests of different actors across various scales or in large bureaucracies include monitoring and evaluations.
We invite authors to submit articles on the following topics, including (but not limited to):
- Sustainable development and climate resilience, acknowledging diversity in the development status of cities and countries, especially from the global south.
- The interrelationship between local contexts and developing contexts (governance, science, and climate change), and between urban and rural systems as the regional ecological sphere.
- Urban emissions trends in global south cities, including consumption-based emissions; the role of cities in emissions and mitigation; and future global- and city-level scenarios, considering local options, equity, sustainable development, infrastructure, and informal sectors and settlements.
- Science-based policy-making processes led by scientific evidence, the application of modeling or any tools that help the process, and which recognizing the multiple co-benefits in the context of applications in urban city services.
- The complexity and need to contextualize climate change in cities, recognizing its links with Sustainable Development Goals, nature-based solutions, and cascading effects on critical urban infrastructures.
- Case studies/best practices/stories related to climate-resilient development, adaptation, decarbonization, and low-carbon development in a diverse range of cities.
Dr. Sudarmanto Nugroho
Prof. Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- low-carbon cities
- climate changes and cities
- net zero
- urban transition
- climate synergies
- multiple benefits
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