Carbon footprint evaluation at industrial park level: A hybrid life cycle assessment approach

Huijuan Dong, Yong Geng, Fengming Xi and Tsuyoshi Fujita

Energy Policy, 2013, vol. 57, issue C, 298-307

Abstract: Industrial parks have become the effective strategies for government to promote sustainable economic development due to the following advantages: shared infrastructure and concentrated industrial activities within planned areas. However, due to intensive energy consumption and dependence on fossil fuels, industrial parks have become the main areas for greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is critical to quantify their carbon footprints so that appropriate emission reduction policies can be raised. The objective of this paper is to seek an appropriate method on evaluating the carbon footprint of one industrial park. The tiered hybrid LCA method was selected due to its advantages over other methods. Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone (SETDZ), a typical comprehensive industrial park in China, was chosen as a case study park. The results show that the total life cycle carbon footprint of SETDZ was 15.29Mt, including 6.81Mt onsite (direct) carbon footprint, 8.47Mt upstream carbon footprint, and only 3201t downstream carbon footprint. Analysis from industrial sector perspectives shows that chemical industry and manufacture of general purpose machinery and special purposes machinery sector were the two largest sectors for life cycle carbon footprint. Such a sector analysis may be useful for investigation of appropriate emission reduction policies.

Keywords: Carbon footprint; Hybrid LCA; Industrial park (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.01.057

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