3.2.1 Sphere of influence of cities
Course subject(s)
3. Climate action by cities and regions
In this video, Mirjam Harmelink analyses the sphere of influence for city authorities in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In order words: Which emissions can be influenced by local authorities? And what instruments do they have at their disposal?
Key takeaways
- Despite cities’ diverse backgrounds and characteristics, it is possible to make a cross-section of cities’ spheres of influence and the type of policy instruments that cities have at hand.
- A city government’s influence on reducing the scale of these emissions can be divided into three circles: circle of control, circle of influence and circle of the lobby.
Further knowledge
If you want to know more about scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, we recommend you to watch this video on calculating emissions that is available on the course Designing a Climate-Neutral World: An Introduction
Designing a Climate-Neutral World: Taking Action by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/designing-a-climate-neutral-world-taking-action/