Abstract
Environmental conditions not only change naturally across days, seasons and years as a consequence of natural temperature rainfall regimes. Human provoked greenhouse gases (GHG) traps are the responsible of make the planet warmer and much of the world’s urban growth is now characterized by poorly management, unstructured expansion and conventional motorisation. The most important anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere include CO2, CH4, N2O, and several other fluorine-containing halogenated substances. Although the direct greenhouse gases CO2, CH4, and N2O occur naturally in the atmosphere, human activities have dramatically increased their atmospheric concentrations.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsNotes
- 1.
The main objective of the annual Conference of Parties (COP) is to review the Convention’s implementation. The first COP took place in Berlin in 1995 and significant meetings since then have included COP3 where the Kyoto Protocol was adopted, COP11 where the Montreal Action Plan was produced, COP15 in Copenhagen where an agreement to success Kyoto Protocol was unfortunately not realized and COP17 in Durban where the Green Climate Fund was created. http://www.cop21paris.org/about/cop21/.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Zubelzu, S., Álvarez Fernández, R. (2016). Introduction: Importance of Urban Planning and Carbon Footprint. In: Carbon Footprint and Urban Planning . SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31050-3_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31050-3_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-31049-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-31050-3
eBook Packages: EnergyEnergy (R0)