We look back on a successful 45th ISOCARP Congress – Porto, Portugal (18-22 October 2012).
Publications
ISOCARP Review 05, the Congress Report, as well as the report of the Young Planning Professionals’ Workshop are available for purchase in the webshop.
Press
In its July edition UN-HABITAT Urban World included a special Supplement on the ISOCARP Congress on Low Carbon Cities held in Porto, Portugal in October 2009. ISOCARP has an extremely ambitious programme which includes a combination of keynote speeches, Technical Seminars and work¬shops. There will be much to see, to hear and to do! This subject of low carbon cities is, of course, an extremely important one in terms of the future of our planet. Our Congress is fittingly timed in the run up to the vital Copenhagen Summit which is charged with framing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
Download the Press Release ‘Seven Ingredients for Low Carbon Cities’.
Download the Final Statement by General Rapporteur Chris Gossop.
Opening of the Congress
Keynote Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes
President of Energy Agency of Porto; Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
Devoting the last 25 years of his career to teaching, research, consulting and public activities on various topics related to energy and environment, he was the founder of a RTD group on Building Thermal Physics with major pioneering activities in Portugal on Passive Solar Technologies in Buildings, Indoor Air Quality, and Energy and Environment in the Urban Space.
Title of speech: Cities as natural resources processing systems: The energy case.
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Keynote Minister Mah Bow Tan
Ministry of National Development, Singapore
Title of speech: Building sustainable cities: The Singapore experience
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Keynote Jacqueline McGlade
Professor, Chief Executive, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Her research has focused on the spatial and nonlinear dynamics of ecosystems, with particular reference to marine resources, climate change and scenario development. She is director of a software development company and has written and presented a range of radio and television programmes.
Title of speech: Creating the incentives for low carbon cities
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Keynote Richard M Rosan
President, Urban Land Institute (ULI) Worldwide.
Prior to being named President, ULI Worldwide, Mr. Rosan served as ULI President and as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of ULI. In addition to Mr. Rosan’s duties at ULI, he is also the President of the ULI Foundation, the philanthropic arm of ULI. Mr. Rosan is an architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Title of speech: The greening of America’s cities: Working toward a sustainable future
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Keynote Paul Taylor
Chief of the Office of the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Nairobi, Kenya.
As urban planner by profession he has worked in the developing world, mainly in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, for most of his career.
Title of speech: Cities and climate change: Strategies, tactics and trade-offs
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Keynote Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
As professor at UCL (www.climate.be), Jean-Pascal van Ypersele teaches climatology, climate modelling, mathematical geography and environmental sciences. He directs the interdisciplinary Master programme in Science and Management of the Environment.
His recent work is related to integrated assessment modelling of climate stabilisation, and is done with economists in an interdisciplinary perspective. He is Vice-Chair of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).
Title of speech: Climate change and cities: the IPCC case for action
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Conclusions by the General Rapporteur and Congress Team
Conclusions by the General Rapporteur Chris Gossop
Porto 2009 – Workshop 1 Conclusions
Porto 2009 – Workshop 2 Conclusions
Porto 2009 – Workshop 3 Conclusions
Porto 2009 – Workshop 4 Conclusions
Porto 2009 – Workshop 5 Conclusions
Climate Care
ISOCARP has offset 430.04 tonnes of carbon dioxide through greenhouse gas reduction projects in order to reduce the rate of global climate change.
Pictures
Browse through pictures of the event by Manfred Schrenk (about 450 photos).
Paper Presentations
Click here to have a look at the powerpoint presentations (as pdfs) in the five different workshops.
A few authors do not want their paper to be uploaded, mostly because the work presented is still in progress or due to copyright restrictions.
Scroll down for the full list of authors and papers in the different tracks.
WORKSHOP 1:
Tackling the Effects of Climate Change in our Cities and urban Regions
Session 1: Impact of Climate Change on Cities and Region – A Bird Eye View
(14) Ryser, Judith; Franchini, Teresa, CityScope Europe, London, UK; University San Pablo-CEU Madrid, Spain
Toward low carbon cities: Madrid and London
(2) Giacobbe, Nora; Ravella, Olga, Frediani, Julieta, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, La Plata, Argentina
Paradoxical cities: Lower carbon emissions might not lead to low carbon cities
(1) Elsharkawy, Heba; Rashed, Haitham; Rached, Ihab, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Climate change: The impact of sea level rise on Egypt – not present
Dercon, Bruno, UN Habitat, Indonesia
Building Climate Change Resilient Human Settlements: The Case of Sorsogon City
(18) Udika, Rudo, University of the West Indies, Freeport, Trinidad
Climate change and vulnerability: Responding to climate change impacts on the coastal urban corridor, Barbados – NOT FOR UPLOAD
Session 2: Measuring, Monitoring, Modeling
(6) Lourenço, Julia; Pereira, Nuno; Ramos, Luís, University Minho, Porto, Portugal
Land use changes in the Douro Valley and carbon emissions – NOT FOR UPLOAD
(15) Silva, Vasco; Silveira, Paulo; Dentinho, Tomaz, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
Spatial interaction model with land and water use. An application to Terceira Island
(9) Monteiro, Ana; Madureira, Helena, Geography Dept, Porto University, Portugal
The shape and magnitude of Porto`s heat island as a sustainability indicator
(8) Martinico, Francesco; La Rosa, Daniele; Privitera, Riccardo, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
The broken grid: non-urbanised areas for climate change adaptation strategies in a metropolitan region
(7) Magalhaes, Fernanda; Duran-Ortiz, Mario, IDB, Brasilia, Brazil
The impact of urban form on energy consumption – Brasilia x Curitiba
Session 3: Interventions for Low Carbon Consumption
(11) Paloheimo, Eero, Eero Paloheimo Ltd, Tuusula, Finland
Carbon free city?
(5) Kahramanova, Shahla; Namazov, Musaddin, Azerbaijan Architecture & Construction University, Baku, Azerbaijan – not present
Ecological condition of Baku atmosphere and its improvement ways
(13) Rosenfeld, Elias; San Juan, Gustavo; Discoli, Carlos, IDEHAB-FAU-UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
Energetic efficiency measures guided to reduce carbon emissions in the urban residential sector of Argentina
(17) Tillie, Nico; van den Dobbelsteen, Andy, City of Rotterdam and TU Delft, Rotterdam, Netherlands – not present
Towards a CO2 neutral urban development – presenting the Rotterdam Energy Approach and Planning (REAP)
Da Costa Lobo, Manuel, CESUR, Lisbon, Portugal
The Beauty and the Beast
(12) Piguet, Pascal; Blunier Pascal; Mayer, Alexis, BG Consulting Engineers, Geneva, Switzerland
A new energy and natural resources investigation method, Geneva cases
NOT FOR UPLOAD
If you are interested you can contact the author at: Pascal.PIGUET@bg-21.com
Session 4: Planning for Mitigation and Adaptation (1)
(3) Harashina, Sachihiko, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept of Environmental Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Strategic environmental assessment for consensus building of waste management planning – Nagano
(19) Zaman, Jan, self-employed, Brussels, Belgium
Regional planning for climate proofing cities
(4) Howard, Dellarue, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Climate change and disaster risk reduction in Caribbean small island developing states
Session 5: Planning for Mitigation and Adaptation (2)
(16) Storch, Harry, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
The spatial dimensions of climate change at the mega-urban scale in South-East-Asia. Ho Chi Minh City
(10) Moon, Kiduk, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
Adaptation of the urban structure type approach for the vulnerability assessment of climate change risks in Ho Chi Minh City
WORKSHOP 2:
Strategic Land Use Planning for Low Carbon Cities
Session 1: Analysing the Context and the Approaches for Low Carbon Cities
(23) Ibrahim, Abdelkhalek; Shaw, David, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Compact city veracity: The fallacy and credibility of mixed use and high density for a low carbon city
(39) Webster, Jessica; Tomalty, Ray; Korteling, Bett, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Residential energy use characterization and mapping: research and development of information for community energy and greenhouse gas planning in Canada
(22) Ferrer, Mercedes; Franchini, Teresa; Reyes, Ramon, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Zulia University, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Hybrid metropolitan archipelago (Venezuela) – NOT FOR UPLOAD
(37) Tang, Shao Jie; Liu, Rong; Pan, Jing Jiang, Guang Ming branch of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China
Exploration and practice on implementable planning of low-carbon new town
(32) Rau, Stefan, Metropolitan Synergies – Architectural Consultants Shanghai Ltd., Shanghai, China
Attractive rural eco-territories – A path towards social harmony, landscape ecology and urbanization management in China? – A case outside Chongqing
(34) Sasek Divjak, Mojca, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Strategic land use planning for low carbon cities in Ljubljana urban region
Session 2: Planning the urban Growth
(38) Thomas, Stacey, The University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Impacts of economic growth on carbon footprints
(36) Stupar, Aleksandra; Djukic, Aleksandra, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia
Unplanned settlements, (un)expected problems: ‘Green’ solutions for low carbon Serbia?
(29) Lu, Jia, Shenzhen Urban Planning and Research Centre, Shenzhen, China
Spatial planning for low carbon city in Shenzhen
(35) Schrenk, Manfred; Eizinger, Christian; Farkas, Andor, CEIT – Schwechat, Austria
AIRCLIP – Airports and climate protection
(31) Pisco, Paulo, CESUR-IST/UTL, Lisbon, Portugal
Cities & schools in a low carbon approach
Session 3: Methodologies to improve Sustainability
(25) Kapadia, Kavas, New Delhi, India
Low carbon city: putting yesterday’s footprint on tomorrow
(21) Discoli, Carlos; Martini, Irene; Barbero, Dante, IDEHAB-FAU-UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
Unsustainability reduction values: a methodology towards a low carbon city
(33) Reiss-Schmidt, Stephan, City of Munich, Germany
Climate change: integrated strategies – Case study Munich, Germany
(27) Kublacovs, Andis; Pavils, Gatis; City Development Department of Riga City, Riga, Latvia
Facilitation of sustainable urban structure through adequate transport system planning – Example of Riga Northern transport corridor
Session 4: Comprehensive Strategies for an efficiënt Environment
(20) Danko, Cristina; Mendes, Selene; Bentes, Isabel; Ramos, Luis; Lourenço, Julia, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Wastewater infrastructure costs and urban sprawl: the case of Douro region – NOT FOR UPLOAD
(28) La Greca, Paolo; Barbarossa, Luca; Inturri, Giuseppe, University of Catania, Italy
The density dilemma. A proposal for introducing Smart Growth principles in a sprawl settlement within Catania Metropolitan Area
(30) Pinto, Ana Júlia; Remesar, Antoni, CESUR – IST, Lisbon, Portugal
Thinking of public spaces for low carbon cities
(40) Zhao, Pengjun, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Planning for environment-efficient growth: Urban land development and transport for car usage at the metropolitan fringe of Beijing
Session 5: Projects to move towards Low Carbon Cities
(26) Kropman, Niels, SAB spatial development cunsultants, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Climate change not a threat but an opportunity
(24) Jansma, Rein, Zwarts & Jansma Architects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
AMFORA Amsterdam
WORKSHOP 3:
Transport, Community Energy and Waste/Recycling Strategies
Session 1: Transport Strategies
(44) Carvalho, Maria; Domingues, Nuno; Sebastião; Lucas, Jorge, MIT Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
Leading Lisbon against carbon emissions
(45) de Souza Tenorio, Gabriela; Germano dos Santos Júnior, Reinaldo, University of Brasília, Brazil
Brasilia’s urban mobility plan: review and speculations – an environmental approach
(49) Leung, Kira Lise, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Reducing CO2 emissions through the development of a sustainable urban transportation system: Trinidad case
(59) Rüsch, Stephanie, Plansinn GmbH. Vienna, Austria
Planning strategies in Vienna/Austria to raise the rate of bike traffic – NOT FOR UPLOAD
(42) Bobbio, Roberto; Diano, Donatella, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy
Smart Tracks. A strategy for sustainable mobility in Naples
Session 2: Land Use Strategies
(55) Pinho, Joana, IST, Univers.de Lisboa, Porto, Portugal
Planning policies in municipal mobility plans
(61) Svanda, Nina; Hirschler, Petra, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Moving in Vienna – intelligence “on the move”
(51) Mumby, Neil, McCormick Rankin Cagney, Auckland, New Zealand
Parking as a tool to reduce carbon emissions
(54) Pilzer, David, Ministry of the Interior, Jerusalem, Israel
Transition from a demand-based standard to parking limitations that support mass transit
(46) Dimitrijevic, Maja; Grozdanic, Milica, Town Planning Institute of Belgrade, Serbia
KornetCity – IT model of a business concept that reduces motor vehicle traffic in cities
Brasilia x Curitiba
Session 3: Strategies to reduce the Use of Energy in Cities
(63) Vettorato, Daniele; Zambelli, Pietro, Univ.of Trento, Italy
Estimation of energy sustainability on the local scale: an approach based on innovative analytical and mapping tools and multicriteria
(56) Rahaman, Khan, Khulna University, Bangladesh
How safe are the walkers
(62) Ulker Kacar, Evren, Frederick P. Clark Associates, Inc., New York, United States
Green neighbourhoods
(41) Ben-Akiva, Moshe; Pereira, Francisco; Zegras Christopher; Almeida, AM et.al., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA/University of Coimbra, Portugal
Framework for integrated modelling of urban systems
(47) Fischer, Susanne, Amt für Raumplanung, Liestal, CH
2000-Watt Society – The Swiss vision for the creation of sustainable low energy communities
Session 4: Interventions and Innovations for sustainable Cities
(53) Pan, Hongbo; Zhu, Jinghai; Liu, Heyun, Liaoning North Environmental Protection Co., Ltd., Shenyang, China
Making tremendous efforts to promote the development of wind power generation centering on low-carbon cities – not present
(50) Movahed, Nooshin; Maeiyat, Mohammad Mehdi, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Phytoremediation & sustainainable urban design methods
(64) Zhu, Jinghai; Wang, Xiaochen; Shi, Tiemao; Yi, Wu, China Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
Construction of low-carbon city based on massive heat and power cogeneration
(48) Koroneos, Christopher; Nanaki Evanthia; Xydis, George, Thessaloniki, Greece
Solar air-conditioning systems impact on the built environment – A thermodynamic approach
Session 5: Concepts for Researching and Modeling urban Energy & Performance
(52) Novotny, Vojtech; Franke, Daniel; Pokorna, Irena, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
On accessibility and energy efficiency modelling
(60) Stark, Juliane; Dietrich, Tobias; et.al., BOKU University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Potentials and effects of a European-wide CO2-Certificate Trading Scheme upon road traffic in Austria (MACZE)
(57) Rapp, Florian; Keim, Christian; Viejo Garcia, Pablo, EIFER Institut, Karlsruhe, Germany
Energy demand assessment of European urban structures based on a multi-scale approach
(58) Roider, Oliver; Uhlmann, T., University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Evaluation of sustainable transport measures implemented in European cities
WORKSHOP 4:
Design for Low Carbon Cities
Session 1: The broad Perspective and Climatic Design based on Tradition
(72) Huan, Huang; Luo, Qiaoling, Wuhan Planning & Design Institute, Wuhan, China
Ecological rehabilitation of industrial vacant land in the three Gorges Project
(79) Meijer, Michaël; Adriaens, Femke; van der Linden, Olga; Schik, Wouter, SAB Strategie en ontwerp, Arnhem, Netherlands
The next step for sustainable urban design
(75) Bigdeli, Elahe; Iranmanesh, Nasim, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran – not present
Climatic design and creating low carbon city by regarding traditional experiences
(78) Maeiyat, Mohammad Mehdi; Maeiyat, Fatemeh; Movahed, Nushin, IA University of Shiraz, Iran
Sustainable housing in semi-rural settlements: A known pattern to a low carbon city
(82) Seelig, Sebastian, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Low carbon housing for `Young Cities`: Experiences from Hashtgerd New Town, Iran
Session 2: Design of new Developments as low carbon Communities
(85) Zhang, Xinquan; Wang, Weiqiang; Zhu, Ling; Jiang, Qi, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, China – not present
Probe into the creation of eco-residence by using low carbon technology
(77) Yu, Jing; Zhu, Rong, Tongji University Shanghai, China
Approaching Eco City – Humble opinions on the ’harmony city’ concept of the World EXPO 2010, Shanghai, China
(70) de Holanda, Frederico; Gomes, Viridiana; Ribeiro, Romulo, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Planaltina – A low carbon campus for the University of Brasilia Member Countries of the EU
(74) Huang, Wei; Wu, Jun, Tongji University, Shanghai, China – not present
A duet practice of low carbon city from Holland to China: Comparative research between the City of the Sun, Heerhugowaard in Holland, and its counterpart in China: Wuhan Sixin Area
(76) Jones, Phil; Lannon, Simon; Rosenthal, Hendrick, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Energy optimisation modelling for urban scale master planning
Session 3: Design of new Developments as low carbon Communities; Public Transport & public Spaces; Pedestrian System & public Spaces
(81) Rembarz, Gabriela; Kamrowska-Zaluska, Dorota, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
Delivering high environmental quality, affordable housing in Poland
Houthaeve, Rik, Grontmij Belgium, Gent, Belgium (71)
Light rail providing a design for a healthy and liveable urban public space
Ouazzani, Rachid, Collège des architectes urbanistes du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco (80)
Ecoboulevard, Casablanca
Tang, Yuanzhou; Chen, Xiaojing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China (84)
Towards a walkable city: the planning practice of Shenzhen
Granadeiro Cortesão, João; Brandão Alves, Fernando; Danko, Cristina; Monteiro, Ana; Madureira, Helena; Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, Porto, Portugal (69)
A method for the bioclimatic intervention in Portugal
Session 4: Open and green Area Systems including urban Agriculture
(98) Huang, Dingxi; Lu, Chuanting; Wang, Guanxian, Guangzhou Urban Planning and Research Center/ The University of Hong Kong, Guangzhou, China (73)
Integrated management of urban green space – the case in Guangzhou China
(68) Costa, Lucia Maria S A; Soares, Francirose F, PROURB – FAU/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Open spaces and connectivity in landscape design – NOT FOR UPLOAD
(83) Sekar, S.P.; Sundaram, Meenatchi, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India – not present
Planning ‘tree-cover’ is passive means for low carbon cities
Session 5: Digital Techniques and Modeling
(67) Cancela, Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal
Urban agriculture in the city planning process
(66) Bradbury, Matthew, UNITEC NZ, Auckland, New Zealand
The sustainable urban territory, towards an environmental urbanism
(65) Barreiro, Eneritz; Perea, Eugenio; Romero, Ander, LABEIN-Tecnalia, Derio, Spain
Sustainable urban planning in Toledo:
A case study through a holistic energy approach
WORKSHOP 5:
Management and Delivery of Low Carbon Cities
Session 1: Institutional context for delivery of low carbon cities
(90) Guimaraes Castello, Melissa, Campus Advocacio Empresarial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Brazilian Plan on climate change: The missing link to cities
(89) Beriatos, Elias; Papageorgiou, Marilena, University of Thessaly, Athens, Greece
Environmental planning for low carbon cities: The Greek case
(100) Nel, Verna, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Can the South African land use management system be an effective tool in creating low(er) carbon cities?
(88) Bass Specktor, Shiri; Rofe, Yodan & Tal, Alon, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Cities for climate change protection initiative in Israel:
Assessing the impact of urban, economic and socio-political factors on applicability of the programme
Session 2: Policies and planning instruments for delivery of low carbon cities
(10) Bannaga, Sharaf Eldin Ibrahim, Sudan Khartoum Bannaga Consult, Khartoum Sudan
Developing cities between containment of the global phenomenon of rapid urbanisation and sustainable growth
(94) Greene, Fernando, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City’s fight against air pollutants.
A war without end
(91) Dobruna, Aida, Private design company, Pukadesign, Pristina, Kosovo
Low carbon Pristina, mission im(possible)?
(102) Weith, Thomas, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Cross-border governance: a catalyst for low carbon city-regions? – Experiences from the German-Polish border region
(97) Mourão, Joana; Cuchí, Albert; Pagés, Anna, FAUP/LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal
A framework to take CO2 restrictions on municipal urban planning into account
Session 3: Policies and planning instruments for delivery of low carbon cities
(93) Garewal, Rameeta, R.E.Y. Engineers, Inc., Sacramento, USA – not present
Regional low-carbon strategies impact land use planning
(92) Feliciano, Maribel; Prosperi, David, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Potentials and pitfalls in planning for low-carbon cities: The case of Broward County, Florida
(96) Jensen, Rolf H., Rolf H. Jensen AS, Oslo, Norway
New state incentives for local planning towards low carbon cities in Norway
(95) Hirschler, Petra; Prosperi, David, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Thinking long-term about the post-carbon society
Session 4: Local capacities and skills for delivery of low carbon cities
(98) Morris, Marlyn, c/o Department of Survey and Land Information, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad – not present
Toward sustainable climate change adaptation planning and implementation for low carbon cities in small island states of the Caribbean: Resolving the dilemma through a people-centred integrated planning process and institutional framework (The St Lucia Case)
(99) Movahed, Khosro, Azad Islamic University, Shiraz Branch, Shiraz, Iran (99)
The role of urban inhabitants in the move towards low carbon cities
(103) Ying, Sheng, Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute, Shanghai, China
A tale of two low carbon cities
Session 5: Towards sustainable management of low carbon cities
(86) Aichinger, Wolfgang, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Mixed-use for a livable tomorrow
(101) Torres, Miguel; Pinho, Paulo, CITTA – Research Centre for Territory, Transports & Environment, Porto, Portugal
Encouraging low carbon policies: a cap and trade system between local authorities