Emission reduction strategy between Chinese and foreign metropolitan areas

Abstract

Because of the important position of metropolitan areas in the national economy, this paper puts forward the important responsibility of metropolitan areas in a country’s emission reduction task. Taking Chicago Metropolitan Area, Manchester Metropolitan Area and Tokyo Metropolitan Area as the research objects, this paper discusses the action of reducing emissions in international metropolitan area from three aspects: formulation of emission reduction targets, specific emission reduction strategies and regional coordination mechanism. Then, by comparing the emission reduction actions of the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan areas in China, this paper analyses the Enlightenment of the emission reduction of the international metropolitan areas to China, and puts forward the areas that need to be further strengthened in the emission reduction of the metropolitan areas in China.