Methodology for inventorying greenhouse gas emissions from global cities

This paper describes the methodology and data used to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to ten cities or city-regions: Los Angeles County, Denver City and County, Greater Toronto, New York City, Greater London, Geneva Canton, Greater Prague, Barcelona, Cape Town and Bangkok. Equa...

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Published in:Energy policy 2010-09, Vol.38 (9), p.4828-4837
Main Authors: Kennedy, Christopher, Steinberger, Julia, Gasson, Barrie, Hansen, Yvonne, Hillman, Timothy, Havránek, Miroslav, Pataki, Diane, Phdungsilp, Aumnad, Ramaswami, Anu, Mendez, Gara Villalba
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air pollution
Carbon emissions
Cities
Climate change
Emissions
Energy consumption
Energy policy
Environmental indicators
Fuels
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
International
Life-cycle analysis
Mathematical analysis
Metabolism
Methodology
Metropolis
Pollution control
Sales
Studies
Urban metabolism
Urban metabolism Life-cycle analysis Climate change
Wastes
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Summary:This paper describes the methodology and data used to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to ten cities or city-regions: Los Angeles County, Denver City and County, Greater Toronto, New York City, Greater London, Geneva Canton, Greater Prague, Barcelona, Cape Town and Bangkok. Equations for determining emissions are developed for contributions from: electricity; heating and industrial fuels; ground transportation fuels; air and marine fuels; industrial processes; and waste. Gasoline consumption is estimated using three approaches: from local fuel sales; by scaling from regional fuel sales; and from counts of vehicle kilometres travelled. A simplified version of an intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) method for estimating the GHG emissions from landfill waste is applied. Three measures of overall emissions are suggested: (i) actual emissions within the boundary of the city; (ii) single process emissions (from a life-cycle perspective) associated with the city's metabolism; and (iii) life-cycle emissions associated with the city's metabolism. The results and analysis of the study will be published in a second paper.
ISSN:0301-4215
1873-6777
1873-6777
DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.050