Inventorying energy-related CO2 for City: Shanghai study

Abstract

As the biggest CO2 emitter in the world, China attracted lots of concerns. With high population densities and economic activity clustering, cities are the focus for CO2 emission reduction and sustainable development. However, barriers come from the lack of methodology as well as data support. In this study we take the method from the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), and developed the method by using energy balance, national energy statistics been adopting as data, where Shanghai was taken to be a case as one of the most populous cities in China. The results showed that there is 188.32 million tons of CO2 emission in Shanghai during 2008, and there are 14 kinds of energy consumed by pre-established 8 different sectors, coal as the uppermost energy for the total energy consumption, and industry and energy productions are the main contributors to CO2 emission. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.