LCA and Consumption/Needs-Based GHG Accounting for Climate Action : A Pathway to Carbon Neutrality / by Kwi-Gon Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Kwi-Gon.

Series:

Earth and Environmental Science Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental management.

Geography.

Environmental monitoring.

Climatology.

Social sciences.

Environmental Management.

Environmental Monitoring.

Climate Sciences.

Society.

Local Subjects:

Environmental Management.

Geography.

Environmental Monitoring.

Climate Sciences.

Society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book reveals causes of the GHG emission accounting practice failure over the last several decades, describes evolution of new tenets of the accounting and remaining tasks, and suggests a new comprehensive integrated accounting in the form of protocol. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report calls for net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 to limit warming to 1.5 degree C. As a result, many countries, cities, and industries are putting forward their greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction actions and commitments. But can the countries, cities, and industries meet these ambitious decarbonization goals without a reliable GHG inventory? This book tries to answer this question. It has been argued that there is a need to include LCA and consumption/needs-based GHG emissions as a complimentary indicator to the current approach of production-based GHG accounting emissions. As a shifting of the focus of accounting system after the Paris Agreement, consumption/needs-based approach is newly focused on a more broader accounting approach for NDCs and LDCs with a vision of all of society approach. Traditional national inventory approach to GHG emission accounting has been severely criticized as being too production process-oriented, sector-based approach, less transparent, a lack of public participation, no considerations for human needs and human factors.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Background

Chapter 1. Critique of Traditional Approach to GHG Emission Accounting: Literature Review

Chapter 2. Climate responsive GHG Accounting Principles and Values: Working for Integration

Chapter 3. Emergence of Climate Fusion Science: Convergence of Human Needs and Climate change

Part 2. Theory: LCA and Consumption/Needs-based GHG Emission Accounting System

Chapter 4. Basics to GHG Accounting system

Chapter 5. Framework, Methodology and Tools

Chapter 6. Evolving Digital Data Technologies towards New GHG Accounting: Digital Inclusion and Transformation

Part 3. Practice: Case Studies

Chapter 7. Public Buildings

Chapter 8. Commercial Buildings

Chapter 9. Digitalized District Heating in Building Sector

Part 4. Policy Applications to Address LCA and Consumpti-on/Needs-based GHG Accounting

Chapter 10. Informing Policy Making: Political Responses

Chapter 11. Comparison of Carbon Neutral city Plans

Chapter 12. LCA and Consumption/Needs-based GHG Accounting and Reporting Protoccol

Part 5. Conclusions and Future Prospects

Chapter 13. Reshaping of GHG Accounting and Climate Action: A New GHG Emission Accounting Movement

Chapter 14. Research Needs: Research Requirements to Improve the Policy Applicatio-n of LCA and Consumption/Needs-based GHG Accounting Platform

References

Appendices.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783031754685

3031754689

OCLC:

1498541713