With fast pace of urbanization across the world and in India, certain issues have augmented globally like climate change which in turn is leading to melting of ice caps, pollution of air, water and land, exhaustion of non renewable sources of energy like coal, petroleum. It has led to global efforts to find an alternate and sustainable way to make a move towards low energy consumption. The new concept of green cities, eco city, zero carbon city or low carbon city are upcoming each of which emphasizes low levels of all kinds of pollution, low discharge of green house gases. An attempt has been made through this article to study various concepts of low carbon cities, to identify the parameters of low carbon city across the world and its impacts. The article is an exploratory research kind where we have tried to incorporate various practices going across the world for a model low carbon city. The research article reviews various scenarios of urbanization across the world, in India and its causes. It also aims to understand various concepts of low carbon cities defined by different agencies and Indian initiatives.
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