CO2 EMISSIONS AS AN INDICATOR OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Environmental degradation is one of the most significant problems of the globalized world. This paper explores the impact of institutional development and human capital on CO2 emissions in 11 EU transition economies over the period of 2000–2018 through co-integration analysis. The co-integration analysis revealed that human capital negatively affected CO2 emissions in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovenia, and that institutions had a negative impact on CO2 emissions in the Czech Republic. However, both institutions and human capital positively affected CO2 emissions in Latvia and Lithuania.

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Non-Energy Use of Fuels in the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting

Atmosphere ◽

10.3390/atmos10070406 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 406 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eva Krtková ◽

Vladimir Danielik ◽

Janka Szemesová ◽

Klára Tarczay ◽

Gábor Kis-Kovács ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Energy Use ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽

Slovak Republic ◽

Gas Emission ◽

Intergovernmental Panel ◽

The Czech Republic

In the context of greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 emissions from fuels are not arising only from combustion of the fuels, but also from non-energy use of fuels. In order to keep the inventory transparent, comparable, accurate, consistent, and complete, it is necessary to carefully assess such emissions in order to neither not omit nor double count them. The paper presents the methodological guidance of non-energy use of fuels given by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2006 Guidelines. Further, approaches of the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and Hungary, three neighboring countries, for reporting CO2 emissions from non-energy use of fuels are presented and discussed.

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Country-specific emission and oxidation factors for determination of CO2 emissions from combustion of coal and lignite in the Czech Republic

Carbon Management ◽

10.1080/17583004.2016.1271254 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Eva Krtkova ◽

Pavel Fott ◽

Vladimir Neuzil

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Country Specific

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Environmentální výchova hrou - výsledky dopravní kampaně pro děti „Oblékáme hada Edu“

Envigogika ◽

10.14712/18023061.540 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hana Brůhová Foltýnová ◽

Danuše Strnadová ◽

Radomíra Jordová

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Public Transport ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Success Factors ◽

Sustainable Transport ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Factors Influencing

The article presents and summarizes the results of the environmental campaign in the Czech Republic entitled "We Dress Up the Snake Edu". This is the Czech version of the European game Traffic Snake Game, which was joined by the Czech Republic in 2014. This game is aimed at children from kindergartens and 1st grade primary schools who in a playful way reflect the health and environmental impacts of choosing individual means of transport and are encouraged to make the most of sustainable transport decisions – walking, cycling or transport on scooters, public transport and, where appropriate, joint driving of children from several families by car.In the Czech Republic, 49 schools have been involved in this environmental campaign since 2004, of which 12 have participated repeatedly. The article discusses the main success factors of this campaign, and its impacts on travel-to-school decisions, both during the campaign itself and three weeks after the campaign. The authors compare the factors influencing the campaign's impact, such as the regular repetition of the game, influence of the period when this game is played (spring versus autumn term). The article ends with discussions and recommendations for continuing the campaign in the coming years.

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National Limits of Sustainability: The Czech Republic’s CO2 Emissions in the Perspective of Planetary Boundaries

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13042164 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 2164

Author(s):

Aneta Parsonsova ◽

Ivo Machar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

National Level ◽

High Income ◽

Global Perspective ◽

Change Scenario ◽

Planetary Boundaries ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Ghg Reduction

Building on the planetary boundaries (PB) concept and recent studies on assessing the PB at the national level, this paper proposes a new method for addressing the growing need to conceptualize the national environmental limits in the global perspective. The global and national limits for the climate change PB are set using the GDP-adjusted model that represents an innovative and fairer CO2 emissions distribution mechanism. It elaborates on the equity principle and distributes the remaining global emission budget to countries on the basis of their past, current, and future population; past emissions; and current state of economic development. The results point to insufficient global efforts to reduce the CO2 emissions to avoid a global temperature rise of more than 2 °C by 2100. When examining the data in accordance with this climate change scenario, we see that some countries have already spent their CO2 budget and most high-income countries will spend their remaining budget by the end of the decade. This is also the case for the Czech Republic, which exceeded the limit for the period from 2017 onwards in 2018. While the result clearly points to the urgency of the decarbonization process, it also shows that some high-income countries, including the Czech Republic, are currently emitting at the expense of other countries. On the policy level, the findings could contribute to the re-evaluation of the GHG reduction plans as well as setting more appropriate and fairer national targets.

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