Greenhouse gas emissions from key infrastructure sectors in larger and smaller Chinese cities: method development and benchmarking
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

With massive urbanization and infrastructure investments occurring in China, understanding GHG emissions from infrastructure use in small and large Chinese cities with different administrative levels is important for building future low-carbon cities. This paper identifies diverse data sources to assess GHG emission from community-wide infrastructure footprints (CIF) in four Chinese cities of varying population (1 to 20 million people) and administrative levels: Yixing, Qinhuangdao, Xiamen and Beijing. CIF addresses seven infrastructure sectors providing energy (fuels/coal), electricity, water supply and wastewater treatment, transportation, municipal waste management, construction materials, and food to support urban activities. Industrial energy use dominates the infrastructure GHG CIF in all four cities, ranging from 76% of total CIF in Yixing to 30% in Beijing, followed by residential energy use (6–13%), transportation (4–12%), commercial energy use (2–25%), food (6–11%), cement use (3–8%) and water (about 1%), thereby identifying priorities for low-carbon infrastructure development. Trans-boundary footprint contributions ranged from 31% (Beijing) to 8% (Qinhuangdao), indicating that supply chains to cities are important. GHGs from energy use are dominated by electricity (35–45%) and non-electricity coal use (30–50%). The authors demonstrate that disaggregated infrastructure use-efficiency metrics in each infrastructure sector provide useful baseline performance data for comparing diverse cities.

infrastructure sector

ENERGY USE

GHG emission

INDUSTRIAL PARKS

CITY

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS

INVENTORIES

FOOTPRINT

BUILDINGS

CO2 EMISSIONS

Chinese city

benchmark

DRIVERS

Författare

Kangkang Tong

University of Minnesota

Andrew Fang

University of Minnesota

Dana Boyer

University of Minnesota

Yuanchao Hub

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shenghui Cuib

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lei Shic

Tsinghua University

Yuliya Kalmykova

Chalmers, Bygg- och miljöteknik, Vatten Miljö Teknik

Anu Ramaswami

University of Minnesota

Carbon Management

1758-3004 (ISSN)

Vol. 7 1-2 27-39

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Styrkeområden

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Energi

Ämneskategorier

Annan geovetenskap och miljövetenskap

Klimatforskning

DOI

10.1080/17583004.2016.1165354

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