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Now a days, the energy efficiency is gaining central stage in policy designs of a country to address issues of climate change and energy security. Adoption of energy efficiency has vast potential to use the energy at optimized cost and to use national energy resources in sustainable manner. Energy saving certification (ESCert) is a market based incentive mechanism to promote energy efficiency in systematic...
Civil aviation is a high energy consuming traffic department. Based on the method of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the CO2 emission amount and emission intensity of Chinese air transportation and typical airlines from 2005 to 2014 were calculated in this paper. Through the comparative analysis, it can be found that, with the CO2 emissions of Chinese air transportation and typical...
Energy shortage is one of the major impediments to social, industrial and economic growths in developing countries. For instance, only about 40% of Nigeria's population (about 170 million) has access to electricity. Due to this, petrol/diesel generators are used for electricity generation in various sectors of the country, which are not eco-friendly. Though developing countries are thought to emit...
In this paper, we design a layer-based framework for the smart city. This structure includes three sub-layers as human-institutional, physical, and data layers. We discuss the role of technology, individuals' and social capability in changing energy consumption behaviors. We designed a survey with three sub-layers: human-institutional, physical, and data layers to analyze the effect of technology,...
As a move towards sustainable low carbon growth, there are number of mitigation measures like energy efficiency, fuel switch, technologies and demand management which have been identified to reduce green house gas emission. The major reduction opportunities of GHGs involve improving the efficiency with which the energy is used and the transition towards alternative sources of energy. The sustainable...
November 25, 2009, the Chinese government officially announced the action to control greenhouse gas emissions targets, 2020 carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP decreased 40–45% compared to 2005, Non-fossil fuels in primary energy share to about 15%. Based on the objectives of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP decreased 40–45% to 2020, this paper analized the intensity of carbon dioxide...
Tianjin is in a stage of rapid industrialization, and its demand for energy has been growing steadily. The industrial energy consumption accounts for over 60% of total energy consumption in Tianjin. A retrospective analysis is carried out on Tianjin industrial energy consumption. In 1995–2008, Tianjin's industrial energy intensity declined 7.52% annually, higher than the national average rate of 4...
Research on Changing characteristics of carbon emissions and their driving factors in provincial areas are significant for carbon emission control and reduction policies' formulation. In this paper, the changing feature of total carbon emissions, carbon emissions per capita, carbon emissions of three types of primary energy, and the change of emission structure and emission efficiency of Jiangsu province...
Based on extended STIRPAT model, this paper econometrically investigates the impacts on carbon emissions from population, consumption and technology in China by using the principal components regressive analysis method. Using urbanization rate as an index of the population structure, the empirical results of China' s carbon emission from 1990 to 2008 demonstrate that the influence on carbon emission...
Low-carbon economy is another great advance of the human society after agricultural civilization and industrial civilization. An emerging economic development model inevitably requires the enterprise strategic transformation, namely, transforming the high-carbon strategy into the low-carbon strategy. In fact, the sensible enterprises are turning to the low-carbon development strategy in succession...
The paper selects China and Canada as samples respectively on behalf of developing countries and developed countries, according to the data from “the BP World Energy Statistics 2009” and the formula about carbon emissions from calculation handbook which in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006, the amount of total carbon emissions, per capita carbon emissions and carbon...
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in India has proposed the Perform, Achieve and Trade mechanism to improve industrial energy efficiency. Several European countries and Australia have other energy efficiency schemes. Major developing economies like India and China are also engaged in reducing energy consumption, lowering energy intensity in a manner that would be technically feasible and economically...
Carbon tax is not only an important part of the environmental taxation system, but also an important tool of environmental economic policy. The theoretical basis of a carbon tax is to internalize externalities in order to avoid the Tragedy of the Commons in atmosphere. Carbon tax would greatly decrease CO2 emissions. It would restrain economic growth in the short term, but is conducive to the healthy...
Land use is one of the most mainly factors that causing the carbon emission. In order to analyze the effects of land use pattern on carbon emission, using data from Panyu District of Guangzhou City, the authors calculated the carbon emission which is influenced by different land use patterns. The results indicated that carbon emission is significantly diverse according to different land use patterns,...
While the goal of emissions reduction is widely accepted, the ways and means of achieving low-carbon in urbanization are still being debated, created and tested. The paper makes research on the background of low-carbon urban and draw up its planning strategy for Wuhan City Zone (WCZ).
Evidence shows large amount of Green House Gases (GHG) was discharged into the atmosphere during the process of industrial and agricultural production and led to global warming which affected the environment and life of mankind. This press makes GHG reduction the common responsibility of humans. This paper induces risk management into adaptation enhancement and GHG emission reduction, risk matrix...
Since 2007, the United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fourth Climate Change Assessment Report, and climate change attracts unprecedented attention. According to scientific research, we all know energy use is a key resource to produce greenhouse gas which gives rise to the climate change. We need adjust the energy strategy to cope with the climate change. In...
Under the bottleneck of the resources and the environment, if the Western path of modernization is followed, the prospects of China will be dim. The volume of CO2 emission is huge and the growth has been fast in China, posing challenges for mitigation. The development of low-carbon economy is an inevitable choice for change strong. Market capacity, innovation capability and enterprises' fast transition...
The consumption of final energy and consumptions of different varieties of energy in Beijing from 1990 to 2006 are presented using data from the China Energy Statistical Yearbook 2007 and Beijing Statistical Yearbook 2007. Energy-CO2 emission in Beijing was calculated by sector and fuel type using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reference approach and statistical data, and the relationship...
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