| Title |
Estimation and Feature of Greenhouse Gas Emission in Building Sector by National Energy Statistic |
| Authors |
Jeong, Young-Sun ; Kim, Tae-Hyoung |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_SC.2019.35.7.187 |
| Keywords |
Greenhouse Gas; CO2e Emission; Building Sector; Climate Change |
| Abstract |
In December 2015, The Paris Agreement was adopted to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change. Korean government
announced its goal of reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by up to 37% below business as usual projections by 2030 in 2015.
The purpose of this study was to set up the calculation methodology of GHG emission(CO2e) in building sector and to estimate the annual
GHG emission in building sector based on national energy consumption statistic. The GHG emission from buildings is about 135.8 million
ton CO2e as of 2015, taking up about 19.6% of Korea’s entire emission and is about 144.7 million ton CO2e in 2017. The GHG emission of
building sector is increasing at annual rate of 2.0% from 2001 to 2017. The GHG emission from electricity consumption in buildings is 91.8
million ton CO2e in 2017, is the highest CO2 emission by energy source. The results show that the intensity of GHG emission of residential
building sector is 40.6 kg-CO2e/㎡·yr and that of commercial building sector is 68.4 kg-CO2e/㎡·yr. |