measuring one city's carbon impact

In what is reported to be the first project of its kind, the UK City of Leicester will have its entire carbon emissions and carbon sinks calculated, and to have this compared with the social and economic wellbeing of its 270,000 residents. This will provide a basis for determining the success of strategies to reduce its footprint, and could become a model for other cities to adopt.

Academics will also look at how changing road networks, better public transport, maintaining green spaces and using low energy power and lighting can reduce the city's carbon footprint, as well as investigating how Individual Carbon Trading Schemes (ICTs) (where households are given an annual carbon allowance) would work.