Contribution of Road Transport to the Attainment of Ghana’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) through Biofuel Integration

Peerawat Saisirirat, Johannex Fefeh Rushman, Kampanart Silva and Nuwong Chollacoop
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Peerawat Saisirirat: National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Research Team, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Bangkok 12120, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Johannex Fefeh Rushman: National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Research Team, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Bangkok 12120, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Kampanart Silva: National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Research Team, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Bangkok 12120, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Nuwong Chollacoop: National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Research Team, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Bangkok 12120, Pathum Thani, Thailand

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: Since the Paris Agreement in COP21, many countries around the world, including Ghana and Thailand, have established a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with first update recently in COP26. With Ghana’s ongoing effort at COP26 to change its baseline to 2019, this study established a detailed Ghana vehicle ownership model with necessary transport parameters to construct an energy demand model to provide insight for reducing GHG emission contributions from road transport through biofuel (both bioethanol and biodiesel) potential by recourse to a Low Emission Analysis Platform (LEAP), with two scenarios of development from Thailand’s best practice for policy recommendation, which are alternative (ALT), with up to E20/B20, and extreme (EXT), with up to E85/B50, for new vehicles. In each case, energy demand and GHG emissions were analyzed from detailed data on Ghana’s transport sector to show potential benefit from biofuel usages. From Ghana’s transport sector contribution to NDC, 8.4% and 11.1% of GHG emission reduction in 2030 can be achieved with a 0.13% and 0.27% additional arable land requirement from ALT and EXT scenarios. Policy recommendation and implication were also discussed.

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; Ghana road transport; energy demand model; biofuel integration; arable land requirement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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