区域低碳发展研究组（Regional Low Carbon Development Center）成立于2013年，主要致力于气候变化、新型城镇化建设、区域可持续发展等方面的研究。

    学科组目前有科研人员13人，其中研究员1人，客座教授2人，副研究员1人，助理研究员2人，特别研究助理1人，科研助理2人，科研秘书1人，学生6人。专业涵盖生态学、遥感与地理信息系统、经济、土地资源管理、建筑、城市规划、地质与地球化学等。目前建有中芬应用生态技术中心（Sino-Finnish Applide Ecological Technology Center），主要为中国与芬兰的企业、科研院所提供信息与资源共享、项目对接与共同研发的平台。

    学科组目前与剑桥大学、哈佛大学、芬兰图尔库大学、德国航空航天中心工程热力学研究所等国际知名研究机构保持紧密的合作，并与辽宁地方政府建立了良好的院地合作关系，与中国工程院、中科院北京地理所、中科院东北地理与农业生态研究所、沈阳农业大学、沈阳建筑大学等国内科研院校建立了科研合作关系，与国惠新能源环保有限公司建立长期的产学研合作关系。

学科组定位

    课题组将紧密围绕研究所发展战略规划和“中国科学院特色研究所”发展规划，依托景观生态与区域规划研究中心，根据国内外低碳发展领域的先进理论、技术，开展长期碳排放及对气候变化的影响研究，解决国家及地方政府碳减排目标的实现，推动地区可持续发展，为区域低碳化发展提供决策和技术支持。

研究方向

    学科组主要从事应对气候变化技术与政策、中国碳排放权分配与交易机制、节能减排技术、温室气体清单编制、土地利用变化碳排放、碳循环和低碳城市建设、生态文明建设、新型城镇化建设等方面的研究。

    Regional low carbon development center is mainly focus on regional and global climate change, carbon cycle, greenhouse gases inventory, landscape ecology, land use and land cover change and induced carbon emissions, carbon trading, low-carbon and eco-city planning, new type urbanization and rural development.

    Regional low carbon development centeris part of the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Hence our work combines the perspectives of the faculty of the Institute: ecology, land use and land cover change, landscape and urban planning, forest, agriculture, rural development policy, environment, circular economy, and energy.

    In addition to research, the staff of regional low carbon development center supervisesmaster,PhD, and post-doctor student dissertations, and engages with policy makers and thought leaders regionallyand nationally around issues of climate change mitigation and adaptation, ecological and environmental protection, eco-city planning, and rural development.

    The regional low carbon development center has carried out a lot of basic research in the technology and policy on climate change, greenhouse gases inventory, circular economy, new energy and renewable energy technologies, carbon trading and carbon finance. It has accumulated a solid theoretical basis and practical experience. Policy reports on urbanization, climate change, new energy, and carbon emissions trading have been adopted by the provincial and municipal decision-making departments.

    In recent years, the team has accumulated rich experiences on energy, low-carbon and climate change. The team has conducted a lot of scientific exchanges and cooperation with well-known peers from University of Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Turku,University of Maryland, and University of Leeds.