Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Leisure Hotels

2011 ◽  
Vol 183-185 ◽  
pp. 1374-1377
Author(s):  
Yi Chin Huang ◽  
Shin Hao Yang ◽  
Chin Hsiang Luo
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Data Series ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Sustainable Operations ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Leisure Industry

According to the IPCC WGII Fourth Assessment Report, more than 89% of observational data series and studies are consistent with the greenhouse gas change, which is produced from human activities, as a response to global warming. In the previous point, the tourism and leisure industry is regarding as the non-smokestack industry. However, with an increase of leisure and tourism activities, the carbon dioxide emission and energy use have been growing. Recognizing these risks, the Agenda 21 for the Tourism and Travel Industry promulgated by the World Travel and Tourism Council, the WTO and the Earth Council addressed energy consumption as a key issue of concern. The buildings are a major part of the leisure industry. Therefore, this work aims to investigate the energy use and carbon emission of a hotel building, located in the middle of Taiwan, for four seasons. The consumption generated from each visitor activating in the building also were conducted. The results will be used as a reference for further investigations into the reduction of energy use and carbon emission in the leisure buildings. By investigation of proposed carbon neutral model, the willing price to pay is highly larger than both of the shifted and non-shifted prices. Most people has always inclined to pay for self-related GHG emission. Green development and sustainable operations in the leisure industry should be attended because the real costs of a green building are less than you think.

scholarly journals COMPLETE STREETS & LIVABLE CENTERS

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Holzer ◽  
Zakcq Lockrem
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Complete Streets ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
New Construction ◽  
The U.S

INTRODUCTION In recent years, Houston has made great strides in green building, moving into the top ten nationally on both LEED certified and Energy Star rated structures. At the same time, fewer steps have been taken to address transportation, which accounts for one third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. 3 To achieve greater sustainability, architects, planners, and developers must take the space between buildings into greater account. As in other metropolitan areas, Houston's commercial developers and property owners are continuing to embrace green building standards, particularly the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard for new construction. As a result, new offices, schools, institutions, and commercial buildings are increasingly efficient, incorporating a full array of technologies to minimize energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. These are major steps in the right direction, but we can and must do more. Individuals spend only part of their day in any given home, office, school, or other facility. They must also travel between other locations. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in 2009, approximately one-third of GHG emissions came from buildings and another one-third came from transportation. If we are to reduce total GHG emissions, it will not be enough to address only buildings. The (lack of) proximity of these daily destinations to one another is a significant driver of the energy consumption and emissions of travel. Further, the quality of the public infrastructure between destinations directly affects which travel modes are available. Destinations that are well-connected by wide sidewalks, bike lanes, or transit—complete streets—are likely to be reached on foot, bike, or transit. Distances that are connected only by auto-oriented roads or highways are likely to be traversed in cars. LEED for New Construction offers 17 (out of 110) points that are related to location of a building or the transportation options serving it. 4 However, none of these points is mandatory and in many cases they can be earned too easily. For example, points are available if there is any bus or other transit stop within 1/4 mile of a project, without regard for the frequency that buses stop there or whether the connectivity that would allow someone to get from the stop to the project site exists. In order to create greener buildings, it behooves developers and others making site-selection decisions to locate new buildings in or near existing activity centers, to take advantage of proximity to other destinations, and to help enable transit service, which works best where there's density. Getting the location right is especially important for new public facilities, including civic buildings, health clinics, schools, community and senior centers, etc. Second, it behooves owners of existing buildings and local jurisdictions to work together to retrofit streets (in the same way one might retrofit an older building) to make them complete, adding safe and convenient facilities for pedestrians and cyclists. By increasing density and completing street infrastructure, we can reinforce existing locations into livable centers, increasing travel options and reducing auto dependence.

The Benefits and Costs of Foreign Direct Investment for Sustainability in Emerging Market Economies

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Deniz Güvercin
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Panel Var ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Pollution Haven ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The chapter contributes to the growing body of empirical researches by exploring the nexus among FDI, trade, carbon dioxide emission level, and the renewable energy use. Panel VAR econometric methodology upon the data for 18 emerging economies over the period of 1990-2014 is applied to uncover the interactive and simultenous relations among variables. Granger causality test results indicate that FDI, carbon emission, and renewable energy use Granger cause trade. Carbon emission and renewable energy use Granger cause FDI, FDI Granger causes carbon emission, and FDI granger causes renewable energy use. Impulse response analysis results indicate that FDI decreases trade, carbon emission, and renewable energy use. Moreover, carbonemission decreases trade, and increases FDI whereas it is decreased by renewable energy use. Results indicate that the Pollution Haven and the Pollution Halo hypothesis are valid for the FDI, however, the Pollution Haven hypothesis is not valid for trade. Additionally, results indicate that FDI decreases trade implying the presence of substitution relation between FDI and trade.

Assessment of GHG Emission Reduction Performance for Certification Criteria of Korea Green Building Scheme (G-SEED) - Focusing on Materials and Resources Category -

2014 ◽  
Vol 1025-1026 ◽  
pp. 1074-1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Jun Roh ◽  
Sung Ho Tae ◽  
Sung Woo Shin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Apartment House ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective ◽  
Weighted Values

The purpose of this study is to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction performance among certification criteria constituting “materials and resources” category, as a part of study that configures weighted values of categories for the Korea Green Building Scheme (G-SEED). For this purpose, the subjects of assessment were classified into “reference apartment house” newly constructed without application of certification criteria and “assessed apartment house” newly constructed with reflection of certification criteria. In addition, direct and indirect GHG emission reduction performance of the assessed apartment house was assessed from life cycle perspective in comparison to the reference apartment house, reflecting the purpose of assessment according to certification criteria within the “materials and resources” category. As a result, GHG emission reduction performance of “displaying carbon emission of material” and “recycling” were deduced to be extremely excellent. GHG emission reduction performance of “flexibility” and “reducing food waste” ware analyzed to be relatively satisfactory. On one hand, GHG emission reduction performance of “appropriateness of measure to reduce furniture materials” and “use of eco-friendly products” ware assessed to be relatively insufficient.

scholarly journals Energy and Greenhouse Gas Savings for LEED-Certified U.S. Office Buildings

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 749
Author(s):  
John H. Scofield ◽  
Susannah Brodnitz ◽  
Jakob Cornell ◽  
Tian Liang ◽  
Thomas Scofield
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Site Energy ◽  
New Construction

In this work, we present results from the largest study of measured, whole-building energy performance for commercial LEED-certified buildings, using 2016 energy use data that were obtained for 4417 commercial office buildings (114 million m2) from municipal energy benchmarking disclosures for 10 major U.S. cities. The properties included 551 buildings (31 million m2) that we identified as LEED-certified. Annual energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission were compared between LEED and non-LEED offices on a city-by-city basis and in aggregate. In aggregate, LEED offices demonstrated 11% site energy savings but only 7% savings in source energy and GHG emission. LEED offices saved 26% in non-electric energy but demonstrated no significant savings in electric energy. LEED savings in GHG and source energy increased to 10% when compared with newer, non-LEED offices. We also compared the measured energy savings for individual buildings with their projected savings, as determined by LEED points awarded for energy optimization. This analysis uncovered minimal correlation, i.e., an R2 < 1% for New Construction (NC) and Core and Shell (CS), and 8% for Existing Euildings (EB). The total measured site energy savings for LEED-NC and LEED-CS was 11% lower than projected while the total measured source energy savings for LEED-EB was 81% lower than projected. Only LEED offices certified at the gold level demonstrated statistically significant savings in source energy and greenhouse gas emissions as compared with non-LEED offices.

Consumer Underestimation of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated With Food

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Camilleri ◽  
Richard P. Larrick ◽  
Shajuti Hossain ◽  
Dalia Echeverri
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Gas Emissions

scholarly journals FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PENGUNGKAPAN EMISI GAS RUMAH KACA DARI PERSPEKTIF AKUNTANSI HIJAU

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Sri Anggita Olvin Deantari ◽  
Margani Pinasti ◽  
Eliada Herwiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Management System ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Goodness Of Fit Test ◽  
Chemical Companies

<p><em>This study aims to analyze the effect of environmental management system, environmental performance, size, profitability and leverage to greenhouse gas emissions disclosure in Indonesia companies. To measure the extent of carbon emission disclosure used checklist that was developed based on the information request sheets provided by the carbon disclosure project (CDP). The population of this study was all basic industrial and chemical companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2014-2016. Sampling method used in this research is purposive sampling method so that obtained samples based on the criteria as many as 60 research samples. Type of data used is secondary data. Data analysis used descriptive statistic, Classical Assumption Test, Multiple Linear Regression Analysis, Goodness of Fit Test, Coefficient of Determination Analysis (R²) and Hypothesis Testing (t test). </em><em>The results of 5 hypothesis, 4 hypothesis accepted and 1 hypothesis rejected. Variable Environmental Management System, Environmental Performance and Size have positive and significant and Leverage have negative and significant impact to carbon emission disclosure. While profitability have positive but not significant impact in basic industrial and chemical companies in Indonesia. Based on Adjusted R Square is seen that the value of coefficient of determination is 0.663, it means that the Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosure can be explained by independent variable equal to 66,3% and 33,7% explained by other variable.</em><strong></strong></p><em></em>

scholarly journals Strategies for Energy and Climate Management at the British Columbia Institute of Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Moore
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Net Energy ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Institute Of Technology

The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is Canada's premier polytechnic. In 2008, BCIT partnered with its local electricity utility to hire a full-time energy manager. The following year, BCIT's School of Construction and the Environment initiated a campus-as-living-lab of sustainability project called Factor Four in the seven buildings it occupies on BCIT's main campus in Burnaby. The purpose was to explore whether a four-fold (75%) reduction in materials and energy use could be achieved without compromising service levels. By 2016, the project achieved a 50% reduction in energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Factor Four attracted over four million dollars in funding, engaged over 250 students from 12 educational programs, and produced over $200,000 savings annually. In 2017, BCIT set an ambitious target to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions 33% below 2007 levels by 2023, and 80% by 2050, across all five of its campuses. BCIT’s ultimate goal is to become both greenhouse gas neutral and a net energy producer. By setting ambitious targets and systematically implementing energy efficiency improvements, utilizing waste-heat exchange, fuel switching, and developing on-site renewable energy, BCIT is on track to achieving its energy management and climate change goals.

scholarly journals Analysis of Household Energy Use and CO2 Emission using Environmental Kuznets Curve

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-350
Author(s):  
Y. B. Maina ◽  
A. B. Egbedimame ◽  
B. G. Kyari
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emission ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
National Bureau ◽  
Liquefied Petroleum Gas ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Energy Use

This study examined the environmental Kuznet’s curve based on the household energy use and pollution of carbon dioxide in Nigeria as a means of identifying efficient energy for a sustainable environment. Secondary data sets obtained from National Bureau of Statistics on the General Household Survey (2010-11, 2012-13, 2015-16 and 2018-19) were utilized. The study employed descriptive statistics, Consumer Lifestyle Approach and the Econometric specification for income-pollution models. The result showed that the use of diesel and kerosene were declining over the years while Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), electricity and petrol recorded an increasing pattern. However, charcoal and fuelwood usage experienced some decline for the first three years of the survey and rose in 2019. The results also revealed that the total of 105674, 76329, 70006 and 47586 kg of carbon dioxide were emitted monthly based on the four data sets used respectively. With a total of 296064 and 303037 kg for rural and urban households respectively and on the average a household emits a total of 19 kg of carbon dioxide. With regards to the pollution-income relationship, the coefficients of income(y), (y2) and (y3) were all negative, although significant at 1% levels. Indicating that the Kuznets hypothesis was partially applicable to the Nigerian households, while educational level and sex were found to be negative but significant at 1% levels. On the contrary, the family size was positive and significant at 1% level but age of the household head was insignificant determinant of carbon dioxide emission. The paper recommended that the Nigeria government should improve electricity supply, LPG and the income of the households.

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