Increasing the methodological tier of the calculation of carbon dioxide emissions from combustion of road transportation fuels and residual fuel oil
Abstract
The research aims to improve the accuracy of estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which needs to be done for key categories of GHG emissions under the commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Transport is a key category of GHG emissions in the national GHG inventory, which the Republic of Belarus has been implementing since 2003, along with other Parties to Annex I to the UNFCCC. The share of GHG emissions from road transport tends to increase every year and since 2009 has not fallen below 10 % of total national GHG emissions, excluding removals from forestry. An increase in the accuracy of the estimate was made for CO2 emissions by transition from methodological tier 1 to methodological tier 2 using national emission factors.
National emission factors for CO2 from automobile fuels and residual fuel oil consumption have been developed from information on the carbon content of the fuel and using the mass balance method.
The results of the study make it possible for the first time to increase the methodological tier of calculations of CO2 emissions from the consumption of automobile fuels and residual fuel oil by moving from tier 1 to tier 2.
About the Authors
D. V. Melekh
The Republic Scientific and Research Unitary Enterprise "Bel RSC "Ecology" (RUE "Bel RSC "Ecology")
Belarus
Belarus
Dzmitry V. Melekh – Deputy Head of the Department of International Scientific Cooperation and Climate
Yakubova Str., 76, 220095, Minsk
I. P. Narkevitch
The Republic Scientific and Research Unitary Enterprise "Bel RSC "Ecology" (RUE "Bel RSC "Ecology")
Belarus
Belarus
Ivan P. Narkevitch – D. Sc. (Technical), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of International Scientific Cooperation and Climate
Yakubova Str., 76, 220095, Minsk
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Melekh D.V., Narkevitch I.P. Increasing the methodological tier of the calculation of carbon dioxide emissions from combustion of road transportation fuels and residual fuel oil. Nature Management. 2023;(1):84-92. (In Russ.)
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