Dataset on Urban Mitigation Pathways for Decarbonising Infrastructure Across Sectors for Sustainability

This dataset accompanies the original research work in an article on “Urban mitigation pathways for decarbonising infrastructure across sectors for sustainability” (Kılkış, forthcoming). The total of 37 datasheets in this dataset is organised into seven main domains that span annual territorial carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per urban area by sector of urban infrastructure and their totals for a baseline and three alternative scenarios up to the year 2050. In addition, results based on 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations per scenario and aggregated values across the urban areas by region are provided, alongside reference data and relevant information, as follows: The first four domains, each with seven datasheets across 28 datasheets, contain data on the annual territorial CO2 emissions per urban area for a total of 1200 urban areas under the baseline and alternative scenarios between the years 2022 and 2050, including 5-year increments. The datasheets cover the sectors of energy (EN), transport (TN), residential (RD), industry (IN), waste (WT), and agriculture (AG) and the total sectoral territorial CO2 emissions during this timeframe under the scenarios. The datasheets are given in the order of the baseline (Bᵢ), renewable energy (S1), low demand (S2), and shifting pathways (S3) scenarios. The fifth domain, with four datasheets, contains data on the annual territorial CO2 emissions between the years 2025 and 2050 for 1200 urban areas under 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations that are conducted for each scenario. The results of these simulated values for the total territorial CO2 emissions are provided based on the mean and the 5th-95th percentile range under the Monte Carlo simulations for the baseline (Bᵢ), renewable energy (S1), low demand (S2), and shifting pathways (S3) scenarios. The sixth domain, with four datasheets, contains data on the annual territorial CO2 emissions for the sectors of energy (EN), transport (TN), residential (RD), industry (IN), waste (WT), and agriculture (AG) and their totals when aggregated across the 1200 urban areas by region. These aggregated results by region are also provided for the baseline (Bᵢ) and the alternative scenarios of renewable energy (S1), low demand (S2), and shifting pathways (S3). The seventh domain with one datasheet contains reference data for the 1200 urban areas based on per capita territorial CO2 emissions per sector and the total in the reference year of 2022, as well as the urban population in the same reference year. In addition, the countries in which the urban areas are located, and their regions based on a classification of both five and six regions worldwide, are provided among the reference information. The data structure, based on the data class descriptions, scope of the data, data type, and unit, is described in the information sheet. Overall, the 37 datasheets contain half a million cells of data with 501,087 cells in total. The new approach that is established to produce and analyse the data is described in an original research article submitted to Energy. This dataset should be cited as: Kılkış (2026), Dataset on Urban Mitigation Pathways for Decarbonising Infrastructure Across Sectors for Sustainability (v1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18155527.