Obstacles of and Countermeasures for China’s Low Carbon Community Construction

Abstract

Urban communities, as the most basic unit of the human systems on Earth, are important areas for mitigation and adaptation actions in climate change. However, with a lack of deep understanding of the status quo and composition of community carbon emissions, as well as of the issues in low-carbon actions, the measures taken are often superficial and not targeted, which makes low-carbon activities difficult to implement. This study selected different types of communities for questionnaire surveys online, and conducted field interviews and in-depth surveys afterwards in typical communities. Key data such as community energy consumption, transportation, garbage disposal, and the status of community low-carbon actions were collected, based on which the potentials of carbon reduction were analysed, the obstacles in low-carbon community construction were discussed and corresponding countermeasures were proposed.