Global environmental footprints : a guide to estimating, interpreting and using consumption-based accounts of resource use and environmental impacts / Glen P. Peters, Robbie M. Andrew and Jonas Karstensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Glen P., author.

Andrew, Robbie M., author.

Karstensen, Jonas, author.

Series:

TemaNord ; 2016:532.

TemaNord, 0908-6692 ; 2016:532

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages) : color illustrations, graphs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen, [Denmark] : Nordic Council of Ministers, 2016.

Contents:

Intro

Colophon

Contents

Summary

Summary of the key messages

Response to key questions

What are the data requirements and possibilities?

How to use and interpret such estimates and calculations?

With what degree of certainty and reliability?

With what validity for illuminating critical environmental goals, targets and boundaries?

What are the differences between environmental footprint for carbon dioxide emissions and land, water, energy and material use?

What is the significance for policy of differences between renewable and non-renewable resources, and between local resources and issues (e.g., water) and global (e.g., carbon)?

The need for advice and recommendations on how and where to differentiate between different fractions and subcategories of environmental footprints, particularly of materials (fossil fuels, biomass, aggregates, and minerals) and water (green, blue, and grey)

To what extent, and for which purposes, can footprint methodology be used in policy formulation, and what are the main limitations and barriers for such use?

How can footprint indicators best be further developed to improve their level of certainty for these purposes?

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Methodological and Analytical Basis

2.1 Environmental Footprints

2.1.1 Definitions

2.1.2 Key environmental footprints

2.2 Estimating nationallevel environmental footprints

2.2.1 Environmental accounts

2.2.2 Economic accounts

Existing MRIO datasets

Pre-calculated consumption footprint results

Discussion

2.2.3 Aggregation of environmental accounts

2.3 Uncertainty

2.3.1 Limitations of inputoutput models

2.3.2 Structural uncertainties through model comparisons

2.3.3 Parametric Uncertainties

3. The policy relevance and application of environmental footprints.

3.1 Carbon and greenhouse gas footprints

3.1.1 Policy context

3.1.2 Policies

Consumption-based emission limitations

Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA)

Financial and technology transfers

Consumer policies

3.2 Land and water footprints

3.2.1 Policy context

Water Footprint

Land Footprint

Land and Water Footprints

3.2.2 Policies

3.3 Material footprints

3.3.1 Policy context

3.3.2 Policies

4. Using environmental footprints in policy

4.1 Uncertainty and reliability

4.2 Policy applicability

4.3 Future perspectives

References

Summary (Norwegian)

Abstract.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2016).

ISBN:

92-893-4630-2