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Malaysia at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009 during the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) announced the intention of voluntary reduction up to 40% in terms of emission intensity of GDP by the year 2020 compared to 2005 levels. However, on the other hand, Malaysia aims to attain a developed nation status by achieving a self-sufficient industrialized nation under the vision 2020...
Transport sector's fuel mix which is dominated by the fossil fuel imposes multiple external costs like energy security, air quality and climate change. In this study, alternate future scenarios are designed to explore the transitions of national transport system (till 2050). Several policy options are delineated that would facilitate the sustainable low carbon transformation of India's transport sector...
India is witnessing a rapid surge in urban mobility demand as a result of its increasing population, rapid urbanization, rising income levels and the growth and spread of cities. The growth in urban travel demand is majorly driven by cities as LDV sales continue to increase at 26% and the share of two- and four-wheelers in the vehicle mix is increasing in cities. Such a pattern would have vital implications...
In this paper, we choose almost four hundred households in Zhengzhou city for investigating their daily travel behavior. And combined with the statistical data about the Zhengzhou transportation, we estimated the CO2 emissions of Zhengzhou residents commute and obtained some conclusions: in 2001–2010, the carbon dioxide emissions of Zhengzhou urban residents is growing, and its growth rate is similar...
It is an important and urgent issue in the construction of low-carbon cities to establish a set of evaluation indices system of low-carbon cities. Firstly, this paper introduces the concept of low-carbon cities as well as the investigative status of low-carbon cities both at home and abroad, and then it puts forward the construction principles of evaluation indices system for low-carbon cities, setting...
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