dc.contributor.author | GRAY, NICHOLAS FREDERICK | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-18T10:36:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-18T10:36:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2009 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Kenny, T. and Gray, N.F., Comparative performance of six carbon footprint models for use in Ireland., Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 29, 1, 2009, 1, 6 | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67634 | |
dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
dc.description.abstract | Carbon footprint models are increasingly being used to manage personal and household carbon dioxide emissions. Six models were compared for their suitability for use in Ireland using typical data for a household of three people. The annual household energy and transportation emissions ranged from 10,540 to 17,361 kg CO2 yr? 1 (mean 12,886; sd 2135) rising to a total footprint of 12,053 to 27, 218 kg CO2 yr? 1 (mean 18,117; sd 5106) when aviation emissions were included. This represents a potential range for individual CO2 emissions of between 4018 and 9073 kg CO2/person/annum, a variation of over 5 tonnes/person. The information provided by these models proved to be inconsistent and often contradictory. The high variability between models was due to a number of anomalies. When these were corrected mean household energy and transportation emissions fell to 12,130 kg CO2 yr? 1 (sd 805), with a total household footprint of 16,552 kg CO2 yr? 1 (sd 1101). Models vary in their complexity in terms of what is included in the overall estimation of emissions making a full analysis of the primary carbon footprint very difficult. When compared to current Irish conversion factors the corrected models either underestimated or overestimated CO2 emissions by approximately 10%. Current carbon footprint models excluded emissions from CH4 and N2O underestimating CO2 emissions for the household by 1.8%. | en |
dc.format.extent | 1 | en |
dc.format.extent | 6 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Environmental Impact Assessment Review; | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 29; | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 1; | |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.subject | Carbon dioxide; | en |
dc.subject | Emissions; | en |
dc.title | Comparative performance of six carbon footprint models for use in Ireland. | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/nfgray | |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 51591 | |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | OpenAccess | |