Managing Environmental and Energy Transitions for Regions and Cities
This report offers guidance on how to prepare regions and cities for the transition
towards a climate-neutral and circular economy by 2050 and is directed to all policymakers
seeking to identify and implement concrete and ambitious transition pathways. It describes
how cities, regions, and rural areas can manage the transition in a range of policy
domains, including energy supply, conversion, and use, the transformation of mobility
systems, and land use practices. It takes stock of discussions between academic and
policy experts emanating from a series of high-level expert workshops organised in
2019 by the OECD and the European Commission. Bringing together frontier thinking
and practical examples regarding the transition to a climate-neutral economy, the
transition to a circular economy, the transition in cities, the transition in rural
areas, and financing and scale-up of transition action, this report identifies cross-cutting
lessons to support urban, regional, and rural decision makers in managing trade-offs
and in promoting, facilitating and enabling environmental and energy transitions.
Available from November 18, 2020