How do 28 European Union Member States perform in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions? It depends on what we look at: Application of the multi-criteria analysis

Dāce, Elīna; Blumberga, Dagnija

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.07.016

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“…The total rate of GHG emissions given as t CO 2 eq. from agriculture per country per year is estimated by following the IPCC guidelines for national GHG inventory [32]. The main contributors to GHG emissions from the agriculture sector are methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O).…”

Section: Case Study-agriculture Sector In Latviamentioning

confidence: 99%

Temporal Aspects in Emission Accounting—Case Study of Agriculture Sector

2020

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Complex relations link climate change and agriculture. The vast majority of the studies that are looking into the quantification of the climate impacts use the Global Warming Potential (GWP) for a 100-year time horizon (GWP100) as the default metrics. The GWP, including the Bern Carbon Cycle Model (BCCM), was proposed as an alternative method to take into consideration the amount and time of emission, and the fraction of emissions that remained in the atmosphere from previous emission periods. Thus, this study aims to compare two methods for GHG emission accounting from the agriculture sector: the constant GWP100 and the time dynamic GWP100 horizon obtained by using the BCCM to find whether the obtained results will lead to similar or contradicting conclusions. Also, the effect of global temperature potential (GTP) of the studied system is summarized. The results show that the application of the BCCM would facilitate finding more efficient mitigation options for various pollutants and analyze various parts of the climate response system at a specific time in the future (amount of particular pollutants, temperature change potential). Moreover, analyze different solutions for reaching the emission mitigation targets at regional, national, or global levels.

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“…Thus, the long-term target is to reduce GHG emissions in agriculture by approximately 30% by 2050 compared to 2005 levels (European Commission, 2011). Up to now, EU actions have resulted in an overall decrease of GHG emissions of more than 24% with respect to 1990 and about 3% compared to 2005, progressively decoupled with the gross domestic product (increased by 47% with respect to 1990) (Dace and Blumberga, 2016;European Environment Agency, 2016a).…”

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The impact of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU food chain: A quantitative and economic assessment using an environmentally extended input-output approach

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Compagnoni

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Therefore, considering typical features such as clear and easily understandable geometric meaning, while simultaneously considering both best and worst points of view, and convenient calculation and implementation [25][26][27], TOPSIS is a popular method for solving problems in decision making [28], for example, in 2012, Behzadian et al reviewed 266 scholarly papers from 103 journals since the year 2000, and they found that TOPSIS methodology has been successfully applied globally to a wide range of application areas and industrial sectors with varying terms and subjects, mainly including supply chain management and logistics, design, engineering and manufacturing systems, business and marketing management, health, safety and environment management, human resources management, energy management, chemical engineering, water resources management, and other topics [29]. Recently, TOPSIS method has been applied in more subjects, for example, Çetinkaya et al applied a GIS-combined TOPSIS method to identify and rank the potential refugee camp sites for southeastern Turkey [30]; Morteza et al employed the TOPSIS obtain final priorities for the investors in tourism industries to select the optimal tourism site in a fuzzy environment in the Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Iran [31]; Dace and Blumberga applied TOPSIS as one of the three main approaches to compare the 28 European Union Member States with respect to the emission intensity of the agricultural sector [32]. However, the use of TOPSIS as a tool for the city comparison with respect to sustainability has not been reported in the literature reviewed by the authors.…”

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Sustainability Investigation of Resource-Based Cities in Northeastern China

Xue

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Improving the sustainability of traditional resource-based cities in China has been a core issue and policy-priority for Chinese government to establish long-term ecological civilization, particularly for northeastern China which is recognized as a typical agglomeration area of resources cities. In this study, we establish a three-layer index system consisting of a comprehensive layer, systemic layer, and variable layer, and including 22 indicators which are grouped into economic, social and environmental subsystems. After that, the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method was applied to measure and rank the sustainability of the selected 15 typical resource-based cities in northeast China, and then a GIS (Geographical Information System) technique based on the software of SuperMap was applied to map the sustainability in terms of the spatial effects among these cities. The results reveal that a unilateral improvement of a subsystem did not mean an improvement or contribution to whole system. In detail, during the past 15 years from 2000 to 2015, the comprehensive sustainability of resource-based cities in Northeastern China shows a declining trend in the mass, and the sustainability of the economic subsystem shows increase; the sustainability of the social system remains stable, while the environmental subsystem shows decrease. These situations might result from policy interventions during the past 15 years, therefore, promoting the sustainability of resource-based cities needs a historical approach, which should focus on the coordinated development of its economic, social, and environmental subsystems.

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How do 28 European Union Member States perform in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions? It depends on what we look at: Application of the multi-criteria analysis

Cited by 39 publications

References 11 publications

Temporal Aspects in Emission Accounting—Case Study of Agriculture Sector

Temporal Aspects in Emission Accounting—Case Study of Agriculture Sector

The impact of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU food chain: A quantitative and economic assessment using an environmentally extended input-output approach

Sustainability Investigation of Resource-Based Cities in Northeastern China

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