Carbon emissions from a temperate peat fire and its relevance to interannual variability of trace atmospheric greenhouse gases

2006 ◽  
Vol 111 (D6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Poulter ◽  
Norman L. Christensen ◽  
Patrick N. Halpin
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Interannual Variability ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Peat Fire

scholarly journals Investigation of Biomass Efficiency Assessment Methods of Open Green Areas for Sustainable Cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmetali AK ◽  
◽  
Aslı GÜNEŞ GÖLBEY ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Biomass Productivity ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
And Storage

One of the most important environmental problems in today's world is climate change caused by greenhouse gases. Due to the increase in CO2 emissions from greenhouse gases, climate change is increasing and moving towards the point of no return. In this process, many ideas have been developed to combat climate change. One of these ideas is that cities should be sustainable. In order for cities to be sustainable, activities such as expanding the use of renewable energy resources in cities, increasing green and environmentally friendly transportation, improving air quality, and minimizing carbon emissions should be carried out. In this context, open green areas have important effects in terms of improving air quality, reducing the heat island effect in cities and especially keeping carbon emissions to a minimum. Thus, the efficiency and productivity of carbon capture and storage of green areas come to the fore. There are several methods to measure the carbon capture and storage efficiency of green areas and to evaluate their efficiency. In this study, the methods used in determining open green areas in cities and evaluating biomass productivity in these areas will be examined.

Can Regulators Ensure Environmental Sustainability?

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-152
Author(s):  
Robert Baldwin ◽  
Martin Cave
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Carbon Taxes ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Home Heating

Sustainability is an urgent concern that grows in importance as the earth’s fragility becomes increasingly apparent. Regulating in order to promote sustainability, however, brings a number of challenges. The first section of this chapter discusses those general challenges and the second section deals with a specific issue of central importance to sustainability—the control of carbon emissions. Central questions explored include: Is the idea of sustainability too elusive to allow its protection through regulation? How can regulators address the special challenges presented by future and contested harms? What strategies are available to rise to the challenges of regulating so as to foster sustainability? The discussion of responses to carbon and other greenhouse gases deals with the scale of the problems and the regulatory tools available to achieve the decarbonization targets now adopted by governments, including carbon taxes, tradable emissions permits, electric vehicles, and the replacement of gas in home heating.

scholarly journals African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. e2011160118
Author(s):  
Ruben Ramo ◽  
Ekhi Roteta ◽  
Ioannis Bistinas ◽  
Dave van Wees ◽  
Aitor Bastarrika ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Burned Area ◽  
Fire Emissions ◽  
Coarse Spatial Resolution ◽  
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Sentinel 2

Fires are a major contributor to atmospheric budgets of greenhouse gases and aerosols, affect soils and vegetation properties, and are a key driver of land use change. Since the 1990s, global burned area (BA) estimates based on satellite observations have provided critical insights into patterns and trends of fire occurrence. However, these global BA products are based on coarse spatial-resolution sensors, which are unsuitable for detecting small fires that burn only a fraction of a satellite pixel. We estimated the relevance of those small fires by comparing a BA product generated from Sentinel-2 MSI (Multispectral Instrument) images (20-m spatial resolution) with a widely used global BA product based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images (500 m) focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. For the year 2016, we detected 80% more BA with Sentinel-2 images than with the MODIS product. This difference was predominately related to small fires: we observed that 2.02 Mkm2 (out of a total of 4.89 Mkm2) was burned by fires smaller than 100 ha, whereas the MODIS product only detected 0.13 million km2 BA in that fire-size class. This increase in BA subsequently resulted in increased estimates of fire emissions; we computed 31 to 101% more fire carbon emissions than current estimates based on MODIS products. We conclude that small fires are a critical driver of BA in sub-Saharan Africa and that including those small fires in emission estimates raises the contribution of biomass burning to global burdens of (greenhouse) gases and aerosols.

scholarly journals Transport externalities of bus stations produced by Greenhouse Gas (GHG)

2020 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 04001
Author(s):  
M Córdova-Suárez ◽  
E Barreno-Ávila ◽  
P Villacrés-Cevallos ◽  
O Ruíz-Robalino
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Cost Factor ◽  
Average Load ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Indirect Sources

It is established that the interprovincial transportation in bus terminals of the Cities such as Ambato, Riobamba, Salcedo, Latacunga and Guaranda have contributed to the build-up of external costs of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) The climate change costs are calculated by multiplying the carbon emissions by the cost factor. To quantify the GHG emissions, this study has taken into account of both the direct and indirect sources of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG), as well as the ISO 14064.1: 2006 standard. In view thereof, it was found that the 11 bus terminals of the five cities, namely Latacunga, Riobamba Salcedo, Ambato, Guaranda-which accounts for around 3225 buses, had accounted for the emissions of 25,746.8 tCO2eq, 37,404.6 tCO2eq, 8,762.7 tCO2eq, 92,364.9 tCO2eq, 31,990.3 tCO2eq, respectively. Simply, the average load of such pollution produced per vehicle was 60.8 tCO2eq. and the total emissions were 196,269.3 tCO2eq with an estimated GHG contamination cost of €27,477,702 per year.

Analysis of the Carbon Emissions Characteristics of Energy Consumption in Beijing between 1992-2011

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 1587-1590
Author(s):  
Jing Ping Luo ◽  
Jian Feng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Carbon Recycling ◽  
Energy Saving Technology ◽  
Reduce Emissions

There is a long way to reduce emissions with the high speed of urbanization and economic growth in Beijing. In this article, depend on the IPCC country listing guidelines of greenhouse gases, carbon emissions has been calculated of Beijing beteeen1992-2011, then analysis of its historical characteristics . Beijing should seize the opportunity to research and carry out carbon recycling and energy saving technology in a planned and staged way.

Carbon emissions from the peat fire problem—a review

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (14) ◽  
pp. 16948-16961
Author(s):  
Nor Azizah Che Azmi ◽  
Nazirah Mohd Apandi ◽  
Ahmad Safuan A. Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Peat Fire

scholarly journals The Carbon Footprint of Travelling to International Academic Conferences and Options to Minimise It

2022 ◽  
pp. 19-52
Author(s):  
Sebastian Jäckle
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Round Trip ◽  
Online Participation ◽  
Political Research ◽  
Academic Conferences

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the carbon footprint of travelling to academic conferences. The cases I present are the last seven General Conferences of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), which are the biggest European conferences in political science, with up to 2000 participants. My estimations show that the travel-induced carbon footprint of a single conference can amount to more than 2000 tons of greenhouse gases—as much as approximately 270 UK citizens emit in a whole year. The average participant produces between 500 and 1500 kg of CO2-eq per conference round-trip. However, by applying three measures (more centrally located conference venues, the promotion of more land-bound travel and the introduction of online participation for attendees from distant locations), the carbon footprint could be reduced by 78–97 per cent. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a general shift towards online conferences—the ECPR switched to a virtual event as well. Estimating the carbon footprint of this online-only conference in a more detailed manner shows that the travel-induced carbon emissions—if the event had taken place in physical attendance as originally intended—would have been between 250 and 530 times higher than those from the online conference.

scholarly journals Advancing low-carbon emissions in Asia: mitigation of greenhouse gases and enhancing economic feasibility for major sectors

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chew Tin Lee ◽  
Nor Erniza Mohammad Rozali ◽  
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš ◽  
Sirintornthep Towprayoon
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Low Carbon
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