The Potential for Reducing Carbon Emissions Through Improved Efficiency in Industrial Processes

Economic implications of reducing carbon emissions from energy use and industrial processes in Brazil

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.08.049 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 130 ◽

pp. 436-446 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Y.-H. Henry Chen ◽

Govinda R. Timilsina ◽

Florian Landis

Keyword(s):

Carbon Emissions ◽

Energy Use ◽

Industrial Processes ◽

Economic Implications

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Economic Implications of Reducing Carbon Emissions from Energy use and Industrial Processes in Brazil

10.1596/1813-9450-6135 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Y.-H. Henry Chen ◽

Govinda R. Timilsina

Keyword(s):

Carbon Emissions ◽

Energy Use ◽

Industrial Processes ◽

Economic Implications

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The carbon emissions of Chinese cities

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions ◽

10.5194/acpd-12-7985-2012 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 7985-8007 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

H. Wang ◽

J. Bi ◽

R. Zhang ◽

M. Liu

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Carbon Emissions ◽

Carbon Emission ◽

Industrial Processes ◽

Emission Inventories ◽

Chinese Cities ◽

Industrial Energy ◽

Per Capita ◽

Industrial Energy Consumption

Abstract. As increasing urbanization has become a national policy priority for economic growth in China, cities have become important players in efforts to reduce carbon emissions. However, their efforts have been hampered by the lack of specific and comparable carbon emission inventories. Comprehensive carbon emission inventories, which present both a relatively current snapshot and also show how emissions have changed over the past several years, of twelve Chinese cities were developed using bottom-up approach. Carbon emissions in most of Chinese cities rose along with economic growth from 2004 to 2008. Yet per capita carbon emissions varied between the highest and lowest emitting cities by a factor of nearly 7. Average per capita carbon emissions varied across sectors, including industrial energy consumption (64.3%), industrial processes (10.2%), transportation (10.6%), household energy consumption (8.0%), commercial energy consumption (4.3%) and waste processing (2.5%). The levels of per capita carbon emissions in China's cities were higher than we anticipated before comparing them with the average of global cities. This is mainly due to the major contribution of industry sector encompassing industrial energy consumption and industrial processes to the total carbon emissions of Chinese cities.

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