Evaluation Of Carbon Footprint In Southeast Zone Of Surat City

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Vaishali Raj, Dr.Mehali Mehta

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Increased earth’s temperature leading to global warming and climate change various anthropogenic activities resulting concentration of GHG. Urban residents and their activities contribute to 85% of global greenhouse gas emissions and especially Carbon dioxide which therefore requires evaluation and monitoring. Carbon footprint is an easy to apply tool for monitoring and evaluating  due to various human activities. This paper focuses on the evaluation of Carbon footprint of the southeast zone of Surat city which is renowned as a diamond processing and trading hub in Gujarat, and is rated as the fourth fastest growing city in the world according to a global economic research report. Out of the eight zones of Surat city, the southeast zone was selected as the zone comprises all four sectors:


residential sector,  commercial sector, institutional sector and industrial sector. The carbon footprint was calculated according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change 2006 guidelines on greenhouse gas emission especially Carbon dioxide emission, calculated by multiplying activity data with emission factors. Emission factors were developed according to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines. Data were collected considering four parameters namely human factor, electricity consumption, transportation and gas consumption. These data were collected on the basis of bills, personal communications, and questionnaires. Sector wise different human activity contribution to the carbon footprint was considered. The results revealed that, total carbon footprint from the entire selected residential, commercial, institutional and industrial sectors of the Southeast zone of Surat city were 4374023.355 kg CO2 per day. The Carbon                footprint                of            households            was 2256394.79kg CO2 per day, for commercial buildings was 1650500.585kg CO2 per day, for institutional buildings was 343048.1 kg CO2 per day and for selected industrial buildings was 124079.88kg CO2 per day respectively. Southeast Zone, Surat City

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