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China Green Low-Carbon City Index Report on the Performance of 100+ Cities (2010-2015) Authors: Stephanie Ohshita1,2, Jingjing Zhang1 , Li YANG3, Min HU4, Nina Khanna1, David Fridley1, Shuang LIU4, Lingyan CHEN4, Ang LI3, Miao SUN3, Nan Zhou1 1 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) 2 University of San Francisco (USF) 3 Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP) 4 Energy Foundation China (EF China) China Energy Group Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory May 2017 This work was supported by Energy Foundation China through the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231 China Green Low-Carbon City Index Report (2010 – 2015) Disclaimer This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. 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The U.S. Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges, that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. i China Green Low-Carbon City Index Report (2010 – 2015) Table of Contents Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................ii List of Tables ......................................................................................................................... iii List of Figures ........................................................................................................................ iii Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................................. iv Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................ iv Preface ..................................................................................................................................v Executive Summary ................................................................................................................1 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................5 1.1. Green Low-Carbon Development in China’s Cities .....................................................5 1.2. Purpose of the China Green Low-Carbon City Index (CGLCI) .......................................6 2. Review of City Indicator Systems .....................................................................................7 2.1. International indicator systems ................................................................................7 2.2. Chinese city indicator systems ..................................................................................8 2.3. The need for a ranking indicator system for Chinese cities .........................................9 3. Methodology ................................................................................................................ 10 3.1. Index Structure: Categories, Indicators, Benchmarks, and Scoring............................ 10 3.2. Selection and Grouping of Cities ............................................................................. 16 3.3. Data Collection and Processing ............................................................................... 19 4. Index Results and Analysis ............................................................................................ 20 4.1. Moderate Scores, Large Potential for Improvement ................................................ 20 4.2. Top Scoring Cities Show Geographical Spread, with Coastal Concentration in East and South Central Regions ...................................................................................................... 21 4.3. Top Scoring Cities Span Socio-economic Tiers .......................................................... 22 4.4. Cities’ Performance Improved during the 12th FYP Period ........................................ 25 4.5. Low-Carbon Pilot Cities Among Top Scorers, Had Higher Average Score and More Improvement ................................................................................................................... 27 5. City Performance within each Category ......................................................................... 27 5.1. Economy ................................................................................................................ 27 5.2. Energy and Power .................................................................................................. 29 5.3. Industry ................................................................................................................. 30 5.4. Transport ............................................................................................................... 31 5.5. Buildings ................................................................................................................ 32 5.6. Environment and Land Use ..................................................................................... 34 5.7. Policy and Outreach ............................................................................................... 35 6. Conclusions and Recommendations .............................................................................. 37 6.1. Accomplishments in Data Gathering and Methodology ........................................... 37 6.2. Key Findings ........................................................................................................... 37 6.3. Recommendations for Further Analysis and Use of the City Index ............................ 38 6.4. Recommendations for Chinese Cities ...................................................................... 40 ii China Green Low-Carbon City Index Report (2010 – 2015) 7. References ................................................................................................................... 41 APPENDIX A ...........................................................................................................................1 List of Tables Table ES-1: Structure of the China Green Low-Carbon City Index ................................................... 2 Table ES-2. City Index Summary Statistics (2015) ........................................................................... 3 Table 1: Structure of the China Green Low-Carbon City Index ...................................................... 13 Table 2: City Index CASS groupings based on economic and urbanization characteristics .......... 18 Table 3. City Index grouping by City Tiers ..................................................................................... 19 Table 4. City Index Summary Statistics (2015) .............................................................................. 21 Table 5. Top 50 Cities in the China Green Low-Carbon City Index (2015) ..................................... 24 Table 6. Tier I Cities: City Index Ranking and Scores (2015) .......................................................... 25 Table 7. Change in City Index Scores during the 12th FYP (2010 – 2015) ...................................... 26 Table 8: Improvement in Policy & Outreach, Economy, Raised Index Scores (2010 – 2015) ....... 26 Table 9. Top-Scoring Cities in the Economy Category (2015) ....................................................... 28 Table 10. Energy & Power Indicators for Tier 1 Cities (2015) ....................................................... 29 Table 11. Top-Performing Cities in Industry Category (2015) ....................................................... 30 Table 12. Top-Scoring Cities in the Transport Category (2015) .................................................... 31 Table 14. Top-Scoring Cities in the Building Category (2015) ....................................................... 33 Table 15. Benchmarks and City Performance in Environment and Land Use Category (2015) .... 35 Table 15. Top Performing Cities in the Policy & Outreach Category (2015) ................................. 36 Table A1. 2015 Green Low-Carbon China City Index Scores for 115 Cities (Alphabetical Order) ... 2 List of Figures Figure ES-1. Map of Top 50 Cities in the China Green Low-Carbon