Evaluating the carbon emissions of the low carbon city: A novel approach for consumer based allocation

Paloheimo, Eero; Salmi, Olli

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2012.04.003

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“…The decomposition of "origin" and "destination" of embodied emissions by sector in the carbon map is just an additional step introduced by but consumption-based emissions (or CFs) of cities have been calculated with (multi-region) input-output analysis before [42][43][44][45][46]. The MRIO table for this study was derived from the Australian Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory [47] (see the heat map in the Figure S1), which can distinguish regions with a population of 10,000 residents (denoted SA2 region) [48].…”

Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

City Carbon Footprint Networks

Chen¹,

Wiedmann

Hadjikakou³

et al. 2016

Energies

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Abstract:Progressive cities worldwide have demonstrated political leadership by initiating meaningful strategies and actions to tackle climate change. However, the lack of knowledge concerning embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of cities has hampered effective mitigation. We analyse trans-boundary GHG emission transfers between five Australian cities and their trading partners, with embodied emission flows broken down into major economic sectors. We examine intercity carbon footprint (CF) networks and disclose a hierarchy of responsibility for emissions between cities and regions. Allocations of emissions to households, businesses and government and the carbon efficiency of expenditure have been analysed to inform mitigation policies. Our findings indicate that final demand in the five largest cities in Australia accounts for more than half of the nation's CF. City households are responsible for about two thirds of the cities' CFs; the rest can be attributed to government and business consumption and investment. The city network flows highlight that over half of emissions embodied in imports (EEI) to the five cities occur overseas. However, a hierarchy of GHG emissions reveals that overseas regions also outsource emissions to Australian cities such as Perth. We finally discuss the implications of our findings on carbon neutrality, low-carbon city concepts and strategies and allocation of subnational GHG responsibility.

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Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

City Carbon Footprint Networks

Chen¹,

Wiedmann

Hadjikakou³

et al. 2016

Energies

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“…This paper is also distinguished from references [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], which did not use the ZSG-DEA model and/or did not research the CO 2 emissions allowance among China's provinces. Instead, this paper attempts to measure the expected efficiency of carbon emissions allocation in 2020 in China by employing the ZSG-DEA model and further investigates how to establish an efficient allocation under the conditions of fixed total carbon emission rights based on the calculated parameter results.…”

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Forecasting the Allocative Efficiency of Carbon Emission Allowance Financial Assets in China at the Provincial Level in 2020

Zeng

Wang

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Energies

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Abstract:As the result of climate change and deteriorating global environmental quality, nations are under pressure to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases per unit of GDP. China has announced that it is aiming not only to reduce carbon emission per unit of GDP, but also to consume increased amounts of non-fossil energy. The carbon emission allowance is a new type of financial asset in each Chinese province and city that also affects individual firms. This paper attempts to examine the allocative efficiency of carbon emission reduction and non-fossil energy consumption by employing a zero sum gains data envelopment analysis (ZSG-DEA) model, given the premise of fixed CO 2 emissions as well as non-fossil energy consumption. In making its forecasts, the paper optimizes allocative efficiency in 2020 using 2010 economic and carbon emission data from 30 provinces and cities across China as its baseline. An efficient allocation scheme is achieved for all the provinces and cities using the ZSG-DEA model through five iterative calculations.

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“…Studies often acknowledge that IO tables use historic data and often may not reflect the current situation of a city (61). Furthermore, some studies simply assume that imports reflect national or US production functions (57,60). Recent developments in EEIO analysis partially address these difficulties as IO tables are produced more frequently and with higher levels of disaggregation including physical values (61).…”

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“…Consumption-based approaches are frequent in scientific literature (17,24,57). They typically assign emissions to the sectors of final consumption (households and public administration) in a city's territory, by means of EEIOTs (24, 48).…”

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Concepts and Methodologies for Measuring the Sustainability of Cities

Roche

Lechtenböhmer

Fischedick

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Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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In recent decades, better data and methods have become available for understanding the complex functioning of cities and their impacts on sustainability. This review synthesizes the recent developments in concepts and methods being used to measure the impacts of cities on environmental sustainability. It differentiates between a dominant trend in research literature that concentrates on the accounting and allocation of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use to cities and a reemergence of studies that focus on the direct and indirect material and resource flows in cities. The methodological approaches reviewed may consider cities as either producers or consumers, and all recognize that urban environmental impacts can be local, regional, or global. As well as giving an overview of the methodological debates, we examine the implications of the different approaches for policy and the challenges these approaches face in their application in the field.

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Evaluating the carbon emissions of the low carbon city: A novel approach for consumer based allocation

Cited by 42 publications

References 5 publications

City Carbon Footprint Networks

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Forecasting the Allocative Efficiency of Carbon Emission Allowance Financial Assets in China at the Provincial Level in 2020

Concepts and Methodologies for Measuring the Sustainability of Cities

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