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Systematizing and upscaling urban climate chang e mitig ation
F elix Cr eutzig 1 , 2  , X uemei Bai 3 , Radhika Khosla 4  , V incent V iguie 5 and Y oshiki Y amagata 6
1 M ercato r Resear ch Institute o n Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, German y
2 T echnische U niv ersit ¨
at Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3 A ustralian N ational U niv ersity , Canber ra, A ustralia
4 Smith School of Ente r prise and the Environment, Sc hool of Geog raphy and the En vironment, U niversity of Oxfor d, Oxford,
U nited K ingdom
5 CIRED (Ecole des P onts P arisT ech), N ogent-sur -M arne, France
6 N ational Institute f or Environme ntal Studies, T sukuba City , Japan
E-mail: creutzig@mc c-berlin.net
K eywor ds: ur ban, global environmental c hange, climate change, data scie nce, mitigation, adaptation
A bstr act
The question of what cities can contribute to mitigation and adapting to climat e change is gaining
tra ction among resear chers and policy mak ers alik e. Ho wev er , while the field is r ich with case
studies, methods that pro v ide rich data across m unicipalities and potentially at g lobal scale remain
under developed, and co mparat iv e insights remain scarc e. H ere w e summarize contributions to the
focus issue on ‘S yst ematizing and U pscaling U r ban Climate Solutions ’ , also drawing from
prese ntations g iv en at an acc ompan ying confer ence in 2018. W e highlight four co re ar eas for
systematizing and upscaling urban climate mitigation solutions. First, with more and better (big)
data and associated machine learning methods, there is incr easing potential to co mpare ty p es of
cities and leverage collectiv e understanding. Second, while urban climate assessments ha ve mostly
emphasized urban planning, demand-side action as related to both behavioral change and
modified social pra ctices relevant to urban space deserve mor e academic attention and int eg rat ion
across a di ver se set of social sciences. Third, climat e mitigation would be intangible as a single
objective at the urban scale, and measures and sol utions that coor dinate mitigation coher ently with
adaptation and broader sustainable dev elopment goals r equire e xplicit conc eptualization and
systematization. F orth, all insights should come together t o develop go v ernance frameworks that
translate scientific ex er cises into c oncrete, r ealistic and organized action plans on the g round, for
all cities.
1. Introduction
U r ban researc h on climate c hange mitigation is
increasingly gaining spotlig ht. U nderly ing dr iving
for ces include, on the o ne hand, the lack of inter -
national cooperation between nation states t o sub-
stantially addressing the goals of the P ar is ag ree-
ment, and the hope that cities can help fill the
gap w ith their relativ e operational ease. On the
other hand, both academics and practit ioners real-
ize global str ategies of climate change mitigation,
while necessar y , are c learly on their own insuf-
ficient in informing local stak eholders of ho w to
tackle climate c hange; instead solutions that adapt
to geographical and cultural contexts o n the g round,
and that match the political eco nomy in plac e, are
warr anted.
R esearche rs awak e to these tr ends and repeatedly
call for building a global ur ban science Bai ( 2007 ,
Solecki et al 2013 , 2015 , Cr eutzig 2015 , Bai et al 2016 ,
A cuto et al 2018 ). H owev er , develo pment to wards
such global urban science r emains stuck in well-
trodden paths, and the study o f the g lobal dimension
of urbanization continues t o focus on case studies,
which is extremely important but on its own insuffi-
cient. K ey bar r iers to wards globalizing urban sciences
in vol ve data inc onsistencies r endering city compar -
ison difficult, and models either suited t o countr y-
scale global analysis, or to modeling individual city
dynamics, but not t o modelling ensembles of cit-
ies. They also include the lack of pr ecise understand-
ing of the similarities and differenc es between cit-
ies cont exts, both on a socio-cultural aspect (dif-
fer ences in lifestyle and p erc eptions), and on an
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en vironmental aspect (differenc es in exposur e to cli-
mate chang e impacts for instance). A rec ent review
outlines the existing state-o f-the-ar t of available
urban climate-change-r elevant data and the differ-
ent methodological approaches a vailable for a quant-
itativ e g lobal urban sustainabilit y science (C reutzig
et al 2019 ). Ho weve r , such a quantitativ e/data-drive n
agenda must be int eg rated from the beginning w ith
questions of goals, co ntexts, and non-quantitativ e
data: how d o mitigat ion and adaptation str ategies
come t ogether? W ith questions of lifestyles and users:
what ur ban solutions matc h the need, cultures, and
desires of urbanites? A nd w ith questions of gov-
ernance, such as: ho w can we adequately and secur ely
gov ern big data drive n solutions for climat e change
mitigation? These questions are repeat edly r aised in
rec ent literature, and mor e co nceptual and empirical
advances ar e called for (Bai et al 2018 , Ürge-V orsatz
et al 2018 ).
In this focus issue, articles attempt t o address
some of these questions, in v estigating a) the p otential
of big data appr oaches to mak e urban sustainability
resear ch c onsistent and scalable; b) the r ole of ur ban
inhabitants in shaping demand; c) the importance
of relating mitigation and adaptation str ategies; and
d) how insights mak e action relevant in gove rnance
strateg ies (figure 1 ). Belo w we introduc e their specific
contributions.
2. Big data: ty polog ies
T ypolog ies hav e emerged as one k ey tool to bridge
the gap between the urban and the lo cally spe-
cific, and the global effec t, specifically g lobal GHG
emission patterns (C reutzig et al 2015 , Shan et al
2018 , Lamb et al 2019 ), and regional and national
analysis of urban emission patterns (Hrabovszky-
H or v ´
ath et al 2013 , Baur et al 2013 , Ahmad e t al
2015 , Baiocchi et al 2015 ). T his focus issues co m-
prises of several manuscripts that advance such
ty p ologies w ith the aim to systematize climat e
solutions.
One of the most impr essiv e is by Ok e and col-
leagues, focusing on urban t ranspor t (Oke et al 2019 ).
The authors mak e use of most rece nt data for 331
cities that comprise 40% of the w orld’ s population
and are r epresentati ve of all cities wo rldwide. Com-
pressing a high-dimensional data set, they identify 12
ty p es of cities that are characterized by 9 urban trans-
por t dimensions, in v olving mode specific char acter -
istics (BR T , met ro , or bik es), infrastruc tures (net-
work, spra wl, congestion), and wider characteristics
(population, develop ment, sustainability). While the
results ar e mostly as expected—car -dependent cities
emit most CO 2 -emissions—the fine-grained infor m-
ation is relevant. Ok e and colleagues rig htly emphas-
ize that the emerging cong ested cities, mostly in South
and South-East Asia, which ar e still at lo w emissions
per capita but with r apid developme nt, and the sim-
ilarly rapidly developing Chinese cities, which could
plausible see an increase in bik e sharing. These valu-
able results and data dese r ve further inv estigation in
future r esearc h.
Big data appr oaches can equally be applied to
both building and transp ort energ y use in cities.
F or buildings, Gouv eia and P alma assess dw elling
stocks c ompre hensiv ely using ov er half million P or-
tuguese reside ntial Energ y per formance c er tificates
(EPCs) Gouv eia and P alma ( 2019 ). They apply a
building ty polo g y appr oach to in vestigate the pot en-
tial for region-specific retrofitting actions as indicated
by energy performance gaps. The y demonstrate that
roof r etrofitting has the highest potential for energy
reduction. This study de monstr ates sev eral poten-
tial applications of the EPC in the dwelling st ock
characterization and energ y performance estimation
for buildings retro fit, climate change mitigation, and
thermal comfo r t.
In turn, Ahmad and Cr eutzig ty polog ize energy
use for c ommuting in India Ahmad and C reu tzig
( 2019 ). Categorizing 640 Indian ur ban and rur al
distr icts acco rding to the ec onometr ically identified
drive rs of their comm uting emissions, the authors
demonstrate that per capita comm uting emissions are
influenc ed by the built en vironment and mobility-
relat ed var iables. Inc ome, urbanizat ion, trav el mode
choic e are sho w n to be the dominant classifier s of
comm uting emissions as well as high car ownership.
The findings reveal that lo w-carbon commuting and
develop ment str ategies require diff erentiation acr oss
geogr aphical location and cont ext. Solutions need to
be tailored t o geog raphical conte xts w ith finer spatial
clust ering of determinants of commu ting emissions.
In rural areas, electr ic three-wheelers hav e potential
to impr ov e mobility , while keeping emissions lo w .
In urban areas, high-quality bus rapid t ransit sys-
tems will help to fight t raffic-related ext ernalities.
H owev er , the socio-cultural status of cars, especially
SUVs is an issue. The paper highlig hts the potential
of co ntext-stratified sustainable solutions emerging
with the advent o f big data.
These data-driven ap proaches ar e very promising.
H owev er , so cial science c ontributions, as developed
in case studies, remain nec essar y to cont extualize
data-drive n insig hts w ith issues such as political eco-
nom y and cultural conte xt, which is necessar y for
guiding action. It is fortunately possible to syst emat-
ically relate q uantitative data-driv en appr oaches w ith
case study insights systematically . Specifical ly , sys-
tematic sear ch queries on literature in v entories, such
as W eb of Science and Sco pus, enable the identifica-
tion of complet e sets of case studies on specific cit-
ies (Lamb et al 2019 ). W ith suc h methods, it b ecomes
possible to r elate energy categorizations of cit y t y pes
(e.g. relationship between geogr aphic zone and c ool-
ing demand) with human needs for thermal comfort
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Figure 1. Conc eptual presentation of ho w to upscale and systematize urban climate solu tions.
in specific places, and the policy response currentl y
consid ered. One syste matic scoping study , associ-
ated with this focus issue, made a next step in this
endea vor , identifying 867ur ban case studies on cli-
mate chang e mitigat ion that explicity consider t ech-
nological options or policy inst ruments (Sethi e t al
2020 ). The authors find 41 differ ent urban solutions,
with relativ e abate ment potential rang ing between
5% and 105%. These kind of studies w ill continue
to c onsolidate the kno wledge base on ur ban climate
solutions.
3. Demand
R esearch highlights that ur ban form strongly influ-
ences ene rg y demand in buildings (Rode et al 2014 ).
H owev er , many aspects of the intersection between
demand and urban characteristics remains scarc ely
explor ed.
One of the k ey concerns in a lo w carb on transition
is whether a claimed reduction in resour ce int ens-
ity or increased en vironmental efficiency in a city
is a genuine achiev ement or whether the en viron-
mental bur den is transfer red elsewhere. A ccounting
for embodied material and energy through tr ade is
widely recognized as important, w hich has r esul-
ted in c onceptual and methodological advances and
increasing empirical ev idences. This appr oach ho w-
ever , still leaves a loop hole by only focusing on flo ws
and not taking into acc ount the existing stocks that
are r equired t o support productivit y . The increas-
ing role of the se r v ice sector in an ec onom y is often
consid ered to be a path way to dec oupling economic
develop ment and en vironmental impacts, but is it still
the case if we tak e the existing stocks int o account?
Dombi’ s paper explor es this question for the serv ice
sector in H ungar y , using input-output data Dombi
( 2019 ). The result sho ws while the producti v ity of
resour ce flo ws and the en v ironme ntal impacts of the
ser vice sector did impro v e, the stock pr oductiv ity
has been either decreasing or , at best, showed little
impro v ements. In other w ords, the impr ov ements in
material flow p roductivit y is coupled with intens-
iv e stock ac cumulation. The author suggests restruc-
turing of production cost thr ough reducing relat-
iv e price for labor , innovativ eness and other factors
and increasing the r elative p r ice of natural resour ces
through resour ce tax, as possible int er ventions.
Khosla and colleagues focus on another aspect
of demand, that fr om appliances and their energy
implications in India (Khosla et al 2019 ). T hey find
that energy use and GHG emissions from applianc es
in India is only about a 3r d of world a v erage, but that
these patterns are rapidly changing as low-inc ome
households obtain modest economic capabilities and
pursue energy ser v ices. As a w elcome surprise, energ y
efficiency pr ogr ams and consumer beha vior results
in high purchases and use of energy efficient lig ht-
ing (LED) (see also K amat et al ( 2020 )). The same
succ ess, how ever , could so far not been replicated
for fans, TV , and air c onditioning (A C). The authors
also demonstrate that beha v ioral factors, and not
only housing-r elated material and socio-economic
factors, such as inc ome, are statistically r elev ant in
explaining electr icity consumptions. This not only
rev eals the impor tance of beha v ioral factors, such
as choic e archit ectures, in policy design, but also
points to a largely unexplo red area o f researc h ask-
ing for the co mbined role of beha v ioral change and
urbanization in hig h well-being low-energy demand
trajec tories.
In the wider cont ext, a number of factor s are
all relevant in shaping energy demand, including
building stock, de mog raphics, and behavioral and
social tr aits. Fo r example, N iamir and colleagues find
that these factors ma y lead to a threef old div ergence
in change in household electr icity consumption in
2050, and thus eco nomically div ergent trajec tories
(N iamir et al 2020a ). This implicates that uni versal
policy instruments, such as car bon pricing , might b e
comple mented by r egional ly stratified solutions that
match local p ersonal and social norms, but also edu-
cation and struc tural dwelling factors (N iamir et al
2020b ).
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4. Mitigat ion and adaptation
R esearch o n mitigat ion of and adaptation to cli-
mate chang e is often disparate, perhaps an unfortu-
nate c onsequence of these t opics being treated in tw o
differ ent volumes o f the assessment reports of the
Int ergov ernmental P anel on Climat e Change, inad-
ve r tently serv ing as organizing platforms for com-
munities. H owev er , ur ban policy makers, ha ving to
deal pragmat ically w ith issues (Barb er 2013 ), intu-
itiv ely understand better than others that action on
mitigation and adaptation can be integ rated in cli-
mate action plans (R eckien et al 2014 , 2018 ). Follow-
ing suit, the resear ch c ommunity increasingly inv est-
igates action plans that jointly tackle both challenges,
especially at ur ban level Ürge-V orsatz et al ( 2018 ).
This focus issue adds two specific contribution, both
of them addressing measur es to deal with heat wav es,
while keeping GHG emissions lo w .
U sing a simple ur ban economic model, a paper
by Pier er and Cr eutzig highlig hts how adaptation and
mitigation hav e to be co nsidered t ogether when plan-
ning for urban infrast ructures Pierer and C reutzig
( 2019 ), highlig hted also in N atur e Climate Change
W ak e ( 2019 ). The authors jointl y model three aspects
of urban form and their interact ions: transpor t mode
choic e in a cit y ; residential location choic es of the
inhabitants; and the c ooling effect on temperature
of urban parks dur ing heat wav es. Car use reduction
to r educe transpor t-related GHG emissions (mitiga-
tion), and urban cooling to get adapted t o heat wav es
(adaptation), are two c ommonly found policy targets
at a city scale. The pap er shows that c onsidering both
policy targets separately or together leads t o w idely
differ ent policy recomme ndations. The authors argue
that a star -shaped cit y , in v olving hig h-density resid-
ential buildings along linear tr ansport ax es, are best
suited t o both reduce transport emissions and pro v ide
cooling fr om interjace nt parks. The finding of the
paper substantiate the claim that land-use planning is
a central dimension to alleviate the tr ade-off between
urban-scale climate adaptation and mitigat ion (X u
et al 2019 ).
V igui ´
e and colleagues examine anothe r impor t-
ant trade-off w ithin the climate change debat e: the
cons umption of energ y for adaptation, taking the
example of A C ( V iguie et al 2020 ). R ecent r esearch
shows A C plays an important role in energy-related
behaviors of r esidents (Zhang et al 2020 ). Because of
climate c hange, heat wav e risk is increasing sharply .
A C is an efficient t ool to r educe the exposur e to
this risk, but it may lead to large energ y consump-
tion and worsen ou tdoor heat stress. B y quantitat-
iv ely studying the case of P aris, V iguie et al c onsider
whether different c ooling adaptation str ategies at dif-
fer ent scales could pr event the massiv e use of A C.
They find that even ambitious strateg ies (large-scale
city-w ide ur ban greening; building-scale insulation
policy and reflectiv e roofs) do not ap pear sufficient
to t otally replace A C and ensure thermal comfo r t,
under a median climat e change scenario . H ow ever ,
these suggested adaptation strategies can lea d to sig-
nificant reduction of A C energ y consumption and
of the heat released out doors (which fur ther drives
up the demand for A Cs), w hile keeping the same
thermal comfo r t indoors. So do generalized beha vi-
oral changes in A C use. The paper mak es the case for
taking seriously the large increase in c ooling energ y
cons umption and heat-stress conditions posed by the
increased number o f extreme-heat da ys, and the res-
ulting tr ade-off between energy consumption and
maintaining indoor air temperatur e. The tr ade-off
exte nds to the increased demand f or water , w hich is
significant to produc e the projected r equired c ool-
ing. These results also show that adaptation actions,
implemented early , may pla y a k ey role to r emain on
a low-carbon path wa y .
5. Gov ernance
The previous components of upscaling and
systematizing—making best use of big data, int eg-
rating demand and urban planning , and adaptat ion
and integrat ion—wil l be futile if not made action-
ready f or municipal and other decision mak ers. This
means understanding on the one hand institutional
opportunities and obstacles to the develop ment of
efficient policies, and on the other hand the possibil-
ity of engagement and act iv e par ticipation of the local
inhabitants to the climat e strateg y . This focus issue
adds three c ontr ibutions regar ding these two aspects.
Sareen and R ommetve it use a living lab to study
smar t gr ids, w ith a v iew to pr oblematize the c ommon
understanding of emplo ying and scaling up tech-
nocratic infr astr ucture based solutions that d o not
acc ount for local conc erns and users ’ perspec tiv es
Sareen and R ommetveit ( 2019 ). Based on qualitati ve
methods to in vestigat e the roll out of smart me ters
in N orway , they dr aw insights based on the technical
aspects, e veryda y prac tices, and political econom y
that underlie the motivation, engagement, particip-
ation and scale up of smart g r ids as an urban climate
change mitigation strateg y . They emphasize the need
to balanc e out supply-side discursi ve po wer with loc-
alized practices, and focus on examining what motiv-
ates people to be energy efficient in differ ent cont exts.
In doing so , the y argue against misplaced expecta-
tions from the pot ential of ‘smart’ mitigation solu-
tions and call for an alignment of local and systemic
conc erns, along with an understanding and address-
ing of inter dependencies and trade-offs across scales
to mak e substantial (rather than modest) changes for
rapid mitigat ion. Specifically , democratic processes,
citizen empo werment, and activ e engagement in tech-
nolog y development and ad option would all help to
impro v e the usabilit y and effectiv eness of smar t tech-
nologies.
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T able 1. Summar y of insights from this focus issue in all four categories, and outlook for further researc h.
Insights from this focus
issue
Outlook
Big data • U rban transpor t t y po-
logies reveal potential
for climate policies that
adapt to geographic
cont ext, emphasizing
previously underrated
modes, such as cy cling
and three-wheelers.
• Roof r etrofitting iden-
tified as key entr y point
for climate p roofing
buildings in P ortugal.
• U se r emote sensing and
OpenStreetMap for
refined ty pologies
• Integrate ty polog ies
with household sur veys
(see also demand)
Demand • U r ban-scale climate
policies are most effect-
iv e when they integ rate
carbon pr icing with
policies that respect
local social norms and
dwelling characteristics.
• Energy t ransitions are
part icularly impor t-
ant opportunities to
leverage lo w-car bon
lifestyles.
• Build ty polog ies of
demand-side transitions
• Integrate urban form
characteristics in these
ty polo gies
Mitigation & A daptation • U rban planning is a
key t ool to moderate
prob lematic tr ade-offs
between climate c hange
mitigation and adapta-
tion for heat wa ves.
• In v estigate and model
jointly optimized cli-
mate action plans for
specific cities
Gov ernance • U sers of ‘smart’ tec hno-
logies should par ticipate
as active citize ns.
• T ransport interventions
can build on en viron-
mental attitudes, but
work best when reflect-
ing existing mobility
patterns.
• Building differ entiated
action plans for many
(all) cities that respect
differe nces in social
norms, spatial plan-
ning, and the political
econom y .
W eiand and colleagues highlig ht how under -
standing people various b ehaviors and lifestyles
choic es, has impor tant implications when desig n-
ing climate policies in cities (W eiand et al 2019 ). A
sur vey was c onducted in the city of P otsdam, Ger -
man y , b efor e the implementation of a large-scale tr ial
policy aimed at reducing mot orized tr affic. The ar t-
icle analyzes the r esponses of 3553 par ticipants to
questions aiming at identifying their mobility b eha-
viors and underly ing attitudes w ithin the cont ext of
this policy implementation. It sho ws that, thr oug h a
clust er analysis, four groups can be identified, charac-
terized by their mob ilit y habits, attitudes to wards the
measure, and ge neral le vel of en v ironmental c oncern.
Gr oups in vol ve i) car -oriented policy rejecters, ii)
multimodal policy sceptics, iii) green-trav el policy
optimists, and iv) bik e-dedicated policy-enth usiasts.
The first two groups ar e quantitativ ely larger and
strongly object to measures that r educe air pollu-
tion and that impair their existing mobility patterns.
Each group pr esents specific attitudes and percep-
tions to ward the policy , and instr uments which can
efficiently impulse beha vior al changes in each group
are diffe rent. A follo w-up study of the same authors
rev eals that en v ironme ntal attitudes are a main pre-
dictor of air quality policies in general, while existing
and en visaged mobilit y patterns, especially bike use,
are a main pr edictor of the specific policy suggested
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for P otsdam (Schmitz et al 2019 ). Sp ecific measures
should hence al way s consider the mob ilit y patterns of
those affected.
Kim and G rafakos in v estigate the integr ation of
mitigation and adaptation plans in Latin American
cities Kim and G rafakos ( 2019 ). They find a mod-
erate level of int eg ration in most cities. T hey also
demonstrate that learning from r eg ional peer cities
and donor agencies ’ input both help to pr omote the
integrat ion of climat e plans.
6. Conc lusions
Sy stematizing and upscaling knowledge about urban
climate strategies is a key issue to addr ess the goals of
the P aris agreement. But the state o f a g lobal urban
sustainability science is still in its infancy (A cuto et al
2018 , Cr eutzig et al 2019 ). W e present in this special
issue a number of inno vative studies (s ummar ized in
the table 1 ) which co ntr ibute to addr essing the four
main resear ch gaps, which, we argue, exist in this field.
The first is how t o know cities better (data iss ues).
The second and thir d are ho w to c ompare what could
be done in cities, both from a social-scienc e perspect-
iv e (e.g. upscaling demand-side policies) and from
an en vironmental c ontext perspectiv e (e.g . integrat-
ing mitigation and adaptation p erspectives). Finally ,
the forth one is how to locally translate knowledge
into action (gov ernance issues).
Collectiv ely , the papers that we pr esent here sho w
the path for a pr omising resear ch agenda, which ma y
be crucial to significantly reduce global emissions in
the coming y ears.
OR CID iDs
F elix Creu tzig  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5710-
3348
Radhika Khosla  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
7730-8041
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