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COMPARING MITIGATION POLICIES ■ 75

Provision

Waste service/waste water treatment provision

9

<1

Installations for recycling, composting, and waste-to-energy facilities

4

Study

Recycling, composting, and reuse schemes

1

Methane capturing from landfi lls (energy production)

31

Authority

Regulations on methane combustion from landfi ll sites

Subtotal: Waste sector (if applicable)

44

5

Urban planning and land useSelf-governing

High energy-effi ciency standards and use of CHP in new public

buildings

Demonstration projects: house or neighborhood scale

Enabling

Guidance for architects and developers on energy effi ciency and

renewables

Promotion of tree planting

3

Authority

Strategic land-use planning to enhance energy effi ciency and

renewables

Planning of sites for renewable installationsStrategic land-use planning to enhance public transportUrban forestation

<1

7

Subtotal: Urban forestry and land use sector (if applicable)

1

10

Source:

Authors for different sources, based on Alber and Kern 2008: BMA 2008; City of New York 2007a; IEFE 2009; SMA-GDF 2008; Mayor o

f London 2007a.

Note:

Numbers refer to the weight of specifi c measures on annual total emission reductions expected from the implementation of the pl

an. CHP = combined heat and power.

Shaded cells mean that these measures are included in the respective city’s plan; no shading and no number means that the measu

re does not have a quantitative target to

go with it in the plan.