4 February 2010

Carbon Footprint Dissemination Workshop

This special event presented the outcome of a three year long study titled ‘Estimating carbon footprint of urban energy use’. Funded by Veolia Institute of Environment, France, this study was undertaken by TERI in two phases.

The first phase focussed on developing a tool to assess the impact of household energy consumption in urban areas. The footprinting techniques, namely EF (Ecological Footprint) and CF (Carbon Footprint) were evaluated for their application for assessing household energy footprint. These techniques were adapted and a framework developed to assess the CF of urban household energy use.

As part of the second phase of the study, this framework was applied in one city in India (Jaipur) and one in China (Shijiazhuang). This workshop focused on discussing the results for the Indian city.

Speakers

In his opening remarks, he highlighted the need to understand the impacts of urban lifestyles, discussed the key features of the study, and appreciated the methodology developed to estimate the carbon footprint.
 
Describing the study as a novel initiative in developing countries, he highlighted the key contributions of the study, and raised the issue of widening its scope in future and take it to the policy makers so as to create a link between policy and science.
 

In her presentation, she gave a detailed overview of the study and shared the carbon footprint results for Jaipur city.

 

 
Dr Prodipto Ghosh Distinguished Fellow, TERI   Dr Gaëll Mainguy Executive Editor, Scientific Publications, Veolia Environment Institute, France   Ms Akshima T Ghate Area Convenor, Transport and Urban Development, TERI

 

         

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