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Cities currently account for about two-thirds of the worlds annual energy consumption and about 70 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the coming decades, urbanization and income growth in developing countries are expected to push cities energy consumption and GHG emissions shares even higher, particularly where the majority of people remain underserved by basic infrastructure services and where city authorities are underresourced to shift current trajectories. These challenges are faced by many cities and millions of people in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Region, which is experiencing unprecedented rates of urbanization, as the regions urban population grows almost twice as fast as the worlds urban population. This book lays out a blueprint for transforming EAP cities to global engines of green growth by choosing energy efficient solutions to their infrastructure needs. It urges national and municipal governments to reform institutions, build capacity, and strengthen energy planning and governance in order to mainstream energy efficiency on a citywide scale and introduce low-carbon policies in fast-growing cities in the EAP Region which will define the Region's en

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Author

Dejan R. Ostojic; Ranjan K. Bose; Holly Krambeck; Jeanette Lim; Yabei Zhang

Publisher

World Bank Publications

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780821398371

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Management, Sociology