Low-carbon precincts for low-carbon living

Evidence continues to mount concerning the contribution that carbon emissions from human activity are making to global warming and climate change [1], the costs that this will impose on future generations if unabated [2] and the challenging GHG mitigation targets and strategies required to minimise temperature increase [3]. There are multiple pathways available for the decarbonisation of modern societies and they tend to fall under three principal categories: technological change, sustainable urban design and behaviour change [4]. All are necessary and require transformational change from current practice.