1. Global Carbon Project’s Urban and Regional Carbon Management Initiatives Shobhakar Dhakal Executive Director, Global Carbon Project www.globalcarbonproject.org www.gcp-urcm.org Hosted by CSIRO/Australia and NIES/Japan ESSP Goals: Global scientific networking in urban carbon topic Scientific syntheses and new research Science-policy interfacing Creating scientific information resource base

2. Theme 3 Conf/Symposium/workshop: 12 events since 2006 Journal special issue, edited book, syntheses papers Urban energy and carbon modeling forum Web-based scientific information repository Contribution to international assessments and reports – IPCC activities to WGIII – World Energy Outlook 2008 of IEA; Global Energy Assessment; China Council Taskforce; Assessment Report on Cities and Climate Change; World Bank benchmarking of City’s CO 2 emissions; Consensus Panel on Low Carbon Cities of Academy of Sciences of South Africa New research: – Urban carbon quantifications for direct and indirect carbon flows in cities – Evaluating city carbon footprints, city carbon responsibility – Scenarios, development pathways and carbon consequences Our activities (www.gcp-urcm.org)www.gcp-urcm.org

3. Future research and activities Focus on indirect carbon flow in cities and urban function (system boundary, spatial extent and magnitude) and its policy implications – Facilitating more indirect city carbon flow studies in South and South-East Asian cities Urban energy and carbon estimation for India and scenario analyses for few Indian cities Events till March 2010 – Carbon Governance in Asia Workshop with UNU and IHDP – GCP-IIASA-Potsdam workshop (under planning) – South Asian low Carbon city workshop (under planning) – Two sessions in ISIE ConAccount and ISIE Asia Pacific Conference (Urban metabolism and carbon modeling)