wAbstract
@Climate mitigation at the local level plays a highly important
role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation. This research
presents a summary of the local efforts in China's ecological
industrial parks (EIPs) to assess GHG emissions and identify potential
mitigation measures. Through field study and interviews in Suzhou
Industrial Park (SIP), in Jiangsu Province, we concluded an energy-based
GHG emissions inventory for SIP area from 2005-2010, with forecasts
to 2015. The area emitted a total of 10.30 MMT CO2E
in 2010. Three development strategies including business-as-usual
(BAU), existing and pending regulations (EPR) and voluntary mitigating
efforts (VME) were introduced to estimate the energy-related GHG
emissions in 2015. The results projected that emissions will increase
to 17.16 Mt in 2015 with no change in policy or practice, but
3.42 Mt of emissions are avoidable with full compliance with national
and provincial energy policies (1.41 Mt), as well as local efforts
(2.01 Mt). This study furthers the understanding of the potential
effectiveness of carbon reduction strategies of industrial parks
in China, including the development industrial symbiosis (IS)
and on-site renewable energy projects.
Keywords: Industrial parks; GHG emissions; Climate mitigationx
1. Introduction
2. Material and methods
@2.1. Case-study system: Suzhou Industrial Park
@2.2. Research scope and data collection
3. Results and discussion
@3.1. Energy-related GHG emissions
@3.2. Projected emissions and reduction strategies
@3.3. Implementation and reforcement of strategies
@3.4. Policy implications
4. Conclusions
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