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The need to decarbonise the economy can be greatly assisted if precinct scale city development can be a focus. The new low carbon technology for energy, water and waste are favoured by the precinct scale, especially the use of trigeneration, renewables, recycling wastewater, collecting rain water, waste to energy plants and automated solid waste collection. However, to make this work will require much more attention to the proper frameworks for carbon accounting and acknowledgement of best practice at precinct level. Governance will need to refocus on this smaller scale of delivery as it is not available at the moment. New models are developing that enable low carbon precincts to operate with a degree of independence within a broader centralised utility structure. Australian illustrations, especially from the City of Sydney, are showing that it is a feasible transition though some kind of new carbon credits for urban development need to be created.
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South Fremantle Senior High School was the first school in Australia to be certified as Carbon neutral and did so on a cost neutral basis
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Bunning, J., Beattie, C., Rauland, V., Newman, P. (2014). Decarbonising City Precincts: An Australian Perspective. In: Rassia, S., Pardalos, P. (eds) Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures. Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37661-0_10
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