Climate co-benefits in urban areas

This chapter provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the main opportunities and challenges for generation of climate co-benefits in cities and how to promote co-benefit interventions in urban areas, including concepts and tools based on empirical studies. It focuses primarily upon sub-national processes, particularly in cities in developing countries, but the research also looked into the links of local and sub-national processes to national and international regimes. The book considers a common framework to assess co-benefits and applies it across the urban sectors, making an in-depth analysis of the sector and is supplemented by a series of cases to draw valuable lessons on implementation for that sector. These cases derive from the results of empirical research conducted in different parts of the world between 2011 and 2015.