背景:城市群在实现全球气候目标方面发挥着至关重要的作用。许多城市承诺减少温室气体排放,但目前的排放趋势仍然无法证实。温室气体的大气监测为测量城市排放提供了独立和透明的策略。然而,监测网络的精心设计对于能够监测最重要的部门以及适应快速变化的城市景观至关重要。
结果:我们对巴黎和慕尼黑的研究表明,碳排放清单,和城市发展计划可以帮助设计最佳的大气监测网络。我们表明,这两个欧洲城市在空间和时间上显示出截然不同的轨迹,反映不同的减排策略和由于行政边界的约束。预计的碳排放量取决于未来的行动,因此不确定,我们展示了次城市一级的减排量如何显著变化。
结论:我们得出的结论是,量化的各个城市的气候行动对于在城市尺度上构建更稳健的排放轨迹至关重要。此外,为了使城市气候目标的相互比较成为可能,必须协调和兼容各个城市的计划。此外,在未来几十年中,需要延伸到城市范围之外的密集大气网络来跟踪排放趋势。
BACKGROUND: Urban agglomerates play a crucial role in reaching global climate objectives. Many cities have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, but current emission trends remain unverifiable. Atmospheric monitoring of greenhouse gases offers an independent and transparent strategy to measure urban emissions. However, careful design of the monitoring network is crucial to be able to monitor the most important sectors as well as adjust to rapidly changing urban landscapes.
RESULTS: Our study of Paris and Munich demonstrates how climate action plans, carbon emission inventories, and urban development plans can help design optimal atmospheric monitoring networks. We show that these two European cities display widely different trajectories in space and time, reflecting different emission reduction strategies and constraints due to administrative boundaries. The projected carbon emissions rely on future actions, hence uncertain, and we demonstrate how emission reductions vary significantly at the sub-city level.
CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that quantified individual cities\' climate actions are essential to construct more robust emissions trajectories at the city scale. Also, harmonization and compatibility of plans from various cities are necessary to make inter-comparisons of city climate targets possible. Furthermore, dense atmospheric networks extending beyond the city limits are needed to track emission trends over the coming decades.