Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 633-638Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.06.074
Keywords
Climate change; Carbon emission; System analysis approach
Funding
- HSBC Environmental Funds
- State Innovation Training Program(SITP)
- Tongji University Funds [2007kj017]
- The Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission Funds [08DZ1205604]
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This paper presents a system analysis approach on carbon emission reduction at urban level, taking Shanghai as a case. Shanghai's current carbon emission was analyzed based on survey. The prospective carbon emission of Shanghai in 2010 and 2020 were estimated based on scenarios analysis. The main results are: (1) the primary energy consumption of Shanghai shows a continuously increasing trend in recent decades; (2) the energy consumption for production is where the majority of Shanghai's energy consumption is being used; (3) among the total energy consumed, secondary industry energy consumption occupies the biggest share: (4) computations indicate that Shanghai's current carbon emission steadily increased from 1990 to 2005 and reached 58.05 Mt C-eq in 2005, a factor of two times its 1990 emission; (5) if Shanghai can realistically meet the target of the 11th Five-Year Plan, the carbon emission reduction will reach to 17.26 and 111.04Mt C-eq in 2010 and 2020, respectively, which represents a reduction of nearly 46% below its current growth trajectory in 2020. Based on these results, three strategic suggestions for developing low-carbon economy in Shanghai have been proposed, which can also be applied to other similar cities in China. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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