Research Review on the Influencing Factors of Carbon Emissions in Existing Communities

Community is an important part of the city and the basic unit of human life and work. Reducing the total and intensity of carbon emissions in the community is an important part of achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the city. On February 24, 2022, at the press conference held by the State Council Information Office, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development stated that it would focus on green and low-carbon development and build green and low-carbon communities [1]. Reducing community carbon emissions has become a key task in the field of housing construction in China. Although the pilot construction of low-carbon communities and near-zero-carbon communities is advancing rapidly and orderly, and relevant research has discussed the definition, boundary and calculation content of the community, there are still gaps in the proportion of carbon emissions in each part of the community, the identification of influencing factors, and the carbon emission intensity index. How to conduct a reasonable and reliable evaluation of the carbon emission situation of existing communities is an important issue in the research on the low-carbon development of existing communities.