ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a fully integrated energy-climate strategy for the city-region including supply-side' actions on fuels and markets, transport, industry, and adaptation and defensive actions for climate change itself. The 2020 energy-climate strategy aims to transform and de-carbonize the total energy metabolism. Renewables and CHP are then long term energy sources and networks of choice, in the transformation of the total energy metabolism. Energy is fundamental to the life of cities and regions but the energy which powers them is now disrupting the basis of life itself, the global ecological balance. The global climate is a hugely complex system, and its disruption could have catastrophic effects far beyond the calculations of the models World CO2 emissions could rise by 50" over the next 25 years, with the bulk of the increase in developing nations. Due to the large stock of atmospheric CO, by 2100 Kyoto as it stands will produce only marginal effects on climate change processes already in motion.
