Journal
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 676-691Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12346
Keywords
accounting and reporting standards; city carbon footprint; community-scale greenhouse gas emissions; consumption-based accounting; industrial ecology; urban greenhouse gas accounting
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Funding
- Cooperative Research Center for Low Carbon Living, Australian government initiative [RP2007]
- National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources project (NeCTAR), Australian government initiative [VL201]
- Chinese Scholarship Council
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N022645/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/N022645/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Cities are thought to be associated with most of humanity's consumption of natural resources and impacts on the environment. Cities not only constitute major centers of economic activity, knowledge, innovation, and governancethey are also said to be linked to approximately 70% to 80% of global carbon dioxide emissions. This makes cities primary agents of change in a resource- and carbon-constraint world. In order to set meaningful targets, design successful policies, and implement effective mitigation strategies, it is important that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting for cities is accurate, comparable, comprehensive, and complete. Despite recent developments in the standardization of city GHG accounting, there is still a lack of consistent guidelines regarding out-of-boundary emissions, thus hampering efforts to identify mitigation priorities and responsibilities. We introduce a new conceptual frameworkbased on environmental input-output analysisthat allows for a consistent and complete reconciliation of direct and indirect GHG emissions from a city. The city carbon map shows local, regional, national, and global origins and destinations of flows of embodied emissions. We test the carbon map concept by applying it to the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. We discuss the results and limitations of the approach in the light of possible mitigation strategies and policies by different urban stakeholders.
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