Viewpoints: Improving cities' implementation of sustainability objectives

Integrating embodied carbon with existing practices builds on evidence for strategies to buttress capacity including building relationships between departments, involving practitioners as local experts, building intermunicipal linkages, engaging with city networks, and relying on proxy data.

“Integrating embodied carbon with existing practices builds on evidence for strategies to buttress capacity including building relationships between departments, involving practitioners as local experts, building intermunicipal linkages, engaging with city networks, and relying on proxy data (Alm et al. 2021;Caldwell et al. 2021;Krause and Hawkins 2021;Lesnikowski et al. 2021;Oke et al. 2022).”

These strategies are ripe for greater uptake by local governments through mechanisms that have been shown to enhance sustainability capacity such as building relationships between departments, involving practitioners as local experts, building intermunicipal linkages, engaging with city networks, and relying on proxy data.

“These strategies are ripe for greater uptake by local governments through mechanisms that have been shown to enhance sustainability capacity such as building relationships between departments, involving practitioners as local experts, building intermunicipal linkages, engaging with city networks, and relying on proxy data (Alm et al. 2021;Caldwell et al. 2021;Krause and Hawkins 2021;Lesnikowski et”