Sustainable Approach and Practice on Environmental Management and Carbon Emission Reduction in the Tourism Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 573-574 ◽  
pp. 885-889
Author(s):  
Yan Ke ◽  
Pei Yi Ding ◽  
Pei Yu Ren
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Carbon Emission Reduction

Sustainability is using resources in a way and at a rate that enables the current generation to meet their needs and desires without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and desires. It is all about balance of environmental, economic and social benefit. Tourism industry has high reliance on natural and cultural assets and is vulnerable to climate change impacts. This paper introduces a holistic approach to environmental management and carbon emission reduction with practical application in the tourism industry by EarthCheck program. The approach which includes quantitative benchmarking and qualitative assessment is well implemented in a broad industry scale to help tourism business start their sustainable journey.

Framework for accounting for tourism carbon emissions in China: An industrial linkage perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 135481662092489
Author(s):  
Jianping Zha ◽  
Rong Fan ◽  
Yao Yao ◽  
Lamei He ◽  
Yuanyuan Meng
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Structure Effect ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Intensity Effect ◽  
Carbon Emission Reduction

Understanding tourism carbon emissions and their influencing factors from the perspective of industrial linkages can inform policy-making in the development of sustainable tourism. Based on a combination of the environmental input–output (I-O) model and structural decomposition analysis, this article develops a novel framework for analyzing the industrial linkage pathways of China’s carbon emissions linked to tourism and identifying the driving factors affecting change in carbon emissions embodied in the supply chain. Results reveal that most carbon emissions linked to China’s broad-sense or narrow-sense tourism industry derive from some critical upstream industries, that is, indirect carbon emissions resulting from the intermediate production processes. Significant differences exist in the industrial linkage pathways of carbon emissions between tourism subsectors; thus, emission reduction policies for the broad-sense or narrow-sense tourism industry should be formulated based on these key interindustrial linkage pathways. The direct energy consumption intensity effect and energy structure effect are beneficial to carbon emission reduction, while the I-O structure effect reverses the effect on carbon emission reduction from negative to positive.

scholarly journals Carbon Emission Estimation of Assembled Composite Concrete Beams during Construction

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1810
Author(s):  
Kaitong Xu ◽  
Haibo Kang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Ping Jiang ◽  
Na Li
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Composite Beams ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Carbon Emission Reduction ◽  
The Government

At present, the issue of carbon emissions from buildings has become a hot topic, and carbon emission reduction is also becoming a political and economic contest for countries. As a result, the government and researchers have gradually begun to attach great importance to the industrialization of low-carbon and energy-saving buildings. The rise of prefabricated buildings has promoted a major transformation of the construction methods in the construction industry, which is conducive to reducing the consumption of resources and energy, and of great significance in promoting the low-carbon emission reduction of industrial buildings. This article mainly studies the calculation model for carbon emissions of the three-stage life cycle of component production, logistics transportation, and on-site installation in the whole construction process of composite beams for prefabricated buildings. The construction of CG-2 composite beams in Fujian province, China, was taken as the example. Based on the life cycle assessment method, carbon emissions from the actual construction process of composite beams were evaluated, and that generated by the composite beam components during the transportation stage by using diesel, gasoline, and electric energy consumption methods were compared in detail. The results show that (1) the carbon emissions generated by composite beams during the production stage were relatively high, accounting for 80.8% of the total carbon emissions, while during the transport stage and installation stage, they only accounted for 7.6% and 11.6%, respectively; and (2) during the transportation stage with three different energy-consuming trucks, the carbon emissions from diesel fuel trucks were higher, reaching 186.05 kg, followed by gasoline trucks, which generated about 115.68 kg; electric trucks produced the lowest, only 12.24 kg.

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