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- Title
A Review on Household’s Carbon Dioxide Emission of Municipalities.
- Authors
Nair, Sumita; Chandrakar, Madhu
- Abstract
The major issue of today’s era is to combat global warming and conserve environment. The emissions of different greenhouse gases from sources are major cause of concern. Municipalities are considered as one of the main sources of carbon emission of the countries and also the key area of emission reduction potential. India is the second largest in population, fourth largest in energy consumption and third largest in greenhouse producer and burns ten folds fuel wood as compare to United State. By adopting carbon emission reduction practices, carbon credits can be earned which can be traded in international market. This study of carbon dioxide emission of municipalities suggests that the emission reduction policies of municipalities can earn carbon credits for countries. In these emission reduction practices Household’s emissions can play important role because it accounts for about 78 % of the total emission. To reduce carbon emission of countries, carbon emission reduction strategies can be adopted and in these considerations the household activities are the major cause of concern. Electricity, gas use, transportation, food etc. are the major carbon emission contributors and nevertheless these can be served as the major carbon emission reduction activities. Present study suggests that the reduction in household emissions can result in achieving the carbon emission reduction target of country. Few data from studies on emission reduction policies facilitates the future scope and need of household carbon emission of municipalities study.
- Subjects
INDIA; CARBON dioxide mitigation; AIR pollution
- Publication
Universal Journal of Environmental Research & Technology, 2016, Vol 6, Issue 3, p111
- ISSN
2249-0256
- Publication type
Article