Low-Carbon Development Model And Empirical In Industrial Park Based On The Carbon Footprint Evaluation

Since the industrial revolution, the increased GHG emissions amount has caused to the rised global temperatures, rised sea-level, the increased frequency of abnormal weather, and more natural disasters, which seriously threat to people’s lives and property safety. Carbon footprint is a crucial index for assessment of GHG emission, which has become a hot spot worldwide. In China, how to reduce GHG emission from industrial areas is an important issue to fulfill the commitment to achieve GHG emission targets and sustainable social and economic development. Meanwhile, industrial park development is the main trend of china’s industrial development and the basic unit to achieve carbon reduction target. Building carbon footprint evaluation methodology and promoting low-carbon development is meaningful.In this dissertation, the concepts and research progress of low-carbon economy, carbon footprint, and industrial park were systematically studied by references, material research, theoretical analysis, and field survey. Based on the existing carbon footprint evaluation methods, bascis statistic data and localized emission factors, the measurement and evaluation system of carbon footprint at industrial park was established. Furthermore, we applied this measurement and evaluation system to the Licheng ecomomic development zone. On the basis of analyzing the type and distribution of carbon footprint, we proposed the low-carbon development programs.These results show that the total carbon footprint of Licheng economic development zone is465,600tons in2013year, including401,000tons industrial carbon footprint, which is the major contributor to the total carbon footprint. Carbon footprint of living life is55,500tons, and transportation carbon footprint is9100tons. Due to the park’s carbon sink, green land absorbs113,700tons CO2. With the industrial carbon footprint, including24,400tons onsite (direct) carbon footprint,364,000tons upstream carbon footprint, and12,600tons downstream carbon footprint. Analysis of industrial sector perspectives shows that manufacture of leather, fur, feather and related products and manufacture of chemical materials and chemical products were the two largest sectors for life cycle carbon footprint. Based on the carbon footprint evaluation results, the paper tried to build the development of low-carbon guiding index system, analyzed the low-carbon development model and target accessibility.