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<\/a>Solar panels lining the roof of a store in Caguas, Puerto Rico. (Credit: Walmart Corporate, flikr.com<\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n A team of civil engineers has conducted a detailed analysis of 22 cities from around the world, which could help policymakers choose the right tools to combat climate change on a municipal level.\u00a0Depending on their climate, industrial base and population densities, cities can use a variety of tools and techniques to lower their carbon emissions. For example cities in cold-climates, like Toronto, can retrofit buildings to reduce heating costs, while cities with access to low-carbon sources of electricity (e.g. hydropower) can replace fossil fuels with the low-carbon alternative.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Original research paper<\/a><\/span> published in the journal\u00a0Nature Climate Change\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0March 16, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Names and affiliations of selected authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A team of civil engineers has conducted a detailed analysis of 22 cities from around the world, which could help policymakers choose the right tools to combat climate change on a municipal level.\u00a0Depending on their climate, industrial base and population densities, cities can use a variety of tools and techniques to lower their carbon emissions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,31,215,875,50],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-infrastructure","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5577013844_39130bf0c4_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-8S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chris Kennedy<\/a>, Civil Engineering, University of Toronto<\/h4>\n
Daniel Hoornweg<\/a>, Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"