Greenhouse Gas Balance in the City of Reggio Calabria and Assessment of the Effects of Measures of Emission Reduction and Absorption

Concettina Marino, Antonino Nucara, Maria Francesca Panzera and Matilde Pietrafesa ()
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Concettina Marino: Department of Civil, Energetic, Environmental and Material Engineering, “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Antonino Nucara: Department of Civil, Energetic, Environmental and Material Engineering, “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Maria Francesca Panzera: Department of Civil, Energetic, Environmental and Material Engineering, “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Matilde Pietrafesa: Department of Civil, Energetic, Environmental and Material Engineering, “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 9, 1-24

Abstract: Climate change and its ascertained attribution to anthropic activity need to be tackled with extreme urgency and must not be postponed. The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions require a change in the energy paradigm, mainly affecting the construction and mobility sectors. Countries need to move towards climate neutrality with a widespread adoption of innovative models, systems, and technologies, reducing dependence on non-renewable sources and increasing energy efficiency. Measures to be adopted to achieve the prefixed decarbonization targets should involve, in addition to central governments, local communities. In this paper, in order to contribute to the definition of mitigation measures by the local administration, the balance of emissions and removal of greenhouse gases, assessed following the IPCC guidelines, for an Italian city (Reggio Calabria) on the date of 1 January 2020 is presented. Several hypotheses concerning reduction measures to be applied to the building and transport sectors, together with absorption interventions, have been developed and we have analyzed the effectiveness of each of them and their global effects on 1 January 2030. The proposed measures allow a reduction of 17% of total emissions, indicating that to reach carbon neutrality in 2050, more incisive and wide range interventions are required.

Keywords: greenhouse gas emission balance; IPCC methodology; emission mitigation measures; emission absorption (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: 2023
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