Smart Zero Carbon City: key factors towards smart urban decarbonisation

Abstract

Fossil fuels-based human activity over time has generated

unacceptable local levels of air pollution and GHG emissions. One

of main implications of this activity is Climate Change, which

unforeseen consequences are already impacting at local and

global scales.

This research is focused on defining an effective framework to

shift that trend in the local level through the implementation of

the Smart Zero Carbon City concept, which brings together the

emerging Smart City paradigm and the 2030/2050 EU goals with

the urgent need of decarbonizing our local environments.

In this case, the study applies the Smart Zero Carbon City concept

and implementation method into 5 EU cities, focusing on the

case of Sonderborg municipality (DK) to extract the Key Factors

towards Smart Urban Decarbonisation, which are applicable to

other cities facing this ambitious transition.