Carbon footprinting for climate change management in cities

Figures & data

Figure 1.  Emissions sources in cities in relation to scope (a way of differentiating emissions sources employed by the World Resource Institute) and life cycle perspective, from the perspective of the processes occurring within a city.

Figure 2.  Emissions sources in cities in relation to scope (a way of differentiating emissions sources employed by the World Resource Institute) and life cycle perspective, from the perspective of the wider process boundary.

Table 1.  Comparison of production, consumption and shared responsibility GHG accounting.

Criteria	Production-based accounting	Consumption-based accounting	Shared responsibility accounting
Boundary	Administered territory	Global	Global
Allocation	Domestic production	Domestic consumption	Domestic activity
Allocation of trade	Includes exports, not imports	Includes imports, not exports	Compares imports and exports
Mitigation focus	Domestic activities	Domestic consumption activity	Domestic production and consumption
Comparability	Consistent with GDP	Consistent with international trade	Consistent with international trade
Complexity	Lower	Higher	Higher
Uncertainty	Lower	Higher	Higher
Transparency	Higher	Lower	Higher
Resolution	Higher	Lower	Higher

Adapted with permission from [32].

Peters GP. From production-based to consumption-based national emission inventories. Ecological Economics65(1),13–23 (2008).

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