The journey to net zero cities with sustainability: global and personal

Peter Newman ()

Chapter 1 in Net Zero Cities with Sustainability, 2025, pp 1-18 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The global commitment to Net Zero with Sustainability is traced to the Paris Agreement and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, but they grew from over 50 years of science and professional practice that enabled, first, Environmental Protection, then Sustainable Development, and now Net Zero with Sustainable Development. These global changes are given a personal perspective that sets up the approach being adopted in the whole book. It suggests we need to address the transition to net zero cities with sustainability using structural, political and hopeful approaches, especially in a time of climate denial.

Keywords: Paris Agreement; Sustainable Development Goals; Environmentalism; Sustainability; Net zero; Covid collapse; Global and personal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800379039
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781800379046.00010 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20355_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().