Representing ‘Place’: City Climate Commissions and the Institutionalisation of Experimental Governance in Edinburgh by Alice Creasy, Matthew Lane, Alice Owen, Candice Howarth, Dan van der Horst

“…Against the backdrop of increasingly fragmented and poly-centric urban climate governance, this article examines the establishment of city climate ‘commissions’ as an experimental means of addressing the challenge of climate change at the city-scale. …”
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Energy systems scenario modelling and long term forecasting of hourly electricity demand by Poul Alberg Østergaard, Frits Møller Andersen, Pil Seok Kwon

“…The analyses are based on scenario development by the Danish Climate Commission. In the short term, it is investigated what the effects will be of having flexible or inflexible electric vehicles and individual heat pumps, and in the long term it is investigated what the effects of changes in the load profiles due to changing weights of demand sectors are. …”
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Beyond domain-led conceptualizations of urban zero-carbon transitions by Andrew Sudmant, Matt Tierney, Andy Gouldson, Joule Bergerson

“…We conclude by exploring how the insights of the Leverage Points Perspective and other approaches can be brought together to inform practical action, and by examining how related theoretical work on provisioning systems and applied work on urban Climate Commissions may be drawn on to advance understanding of how to deliver urban systems change.…”
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