الفهرس 
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Abstract
According to IPCCC, Egypt’s greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions represent nearly 1% of the World’s GHG emissions, and it’s expected that Egypt will be heavily affected by the impact of climate change risks. Building sector contributes more than 30% to total global GHG emissions. In efforts to reduce global warming, GHG reductions would make a significant contribution. This research especially focuses on housing sector as it represents the largest proportion among the rest of the building sectors within the city. The term ”Carbon Footprint” substantially concerns with increasing levels of CO2 emissions in the earth’s atmosphere and the belief that this increasing concentrations of CO2 will continue to change the earth’s climate totally. The increasing interest in ”Carbon Footprint” comes as a result of growing public awareness about global warming problem. The global community now recognises the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to control climate change. Countries, organisations and individuals are starting to take the responsibility. The research problem: Residential buildings has a significant share of global carbon emissions, while the this sector plays important roles both in economic and social development. Consequently, suitable treatment of the residential building balances carbon emissions to finally create a zero-carbon environmental community. The research aim: is to formulate a set of residential building carbon mitigation criteria that should govern a zero carbon community, and finally recommending how to mitigate the residential buildings’ environmental negative impact. The thesis expressed a gradual study consisting of the introduction and three main parts (theoretical, Comparative Analysis, and results& recommendations) which were sequential as follows: Part one: presents a comprehensive theoretical study of overall view of what does Carbon Footprint concept present, its historical origins, measurement methods, the important of the carbon footprint study and literature review studies of some buildings’ carbon footprint mitigation. Part two: first deals with comparative analysis for some residential buildings (the main methodology analysis), then deals with impact of residential buildings, that have low carbon footprint, in achieving sustainable communities in Egypt (El-Gouna city). At the end of this part the author made a comparative analysis for the five residential buildings & El-Gouns residential buildings and get the results. Part three: deals with the conclusion of the previous analysis and some recommendations to get closer to zero carbon residential buildings which in turn gets a first approach to zero carbon communities.