Cities and Climate Change is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change and illustrates the multilevel nature of climate change governance.

Part III compares the experience of the case-study cities in addressing climate change, and assesses the implications of these findings for urban sustainability and global environmental governance. Cities and Climate Change is the first in-depth analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change. The book argues that key challenges concerning the resources and powers of local government, as well as conflicts between local goals for economic development and climate change mitigation, have restricted the level of local action on climate change. These findings have significant implications for the prospects of mitigating climate change and achieving urban sustainability. This book provides a valuable interdisciplinary analysis of these issues, and will appeal to students and researchers interested in sustainability at local and global scales.

1. Introduction
Part 1: Governing Climate Change
2. Global Environmental Governance
3. The Politics of Climate Change: Global to Local
Part 2: Cities and Climate Protection
4. Local Government and Local Governance
5. Newcastle: Planning and Climate Protection
6. Cambridgeshire: Climate Protection and Local Transport Planning
7. Leicester: Climate Protection and the Built Environment
8. Denver: Climate Protection, Energy Management and the Transport
Sector 9. Milwaukee: Climate Protection and New Urbanism
10. Newcastle, NSW: Win-Win Solutions for Climate Protection?
Part 3: Conclusions
11. Cities Protecting the Climate
12. Transnational Networks and Global Environmental Governance