The paper is authored by Mr. Ghafar Ali, a doctoral candidate of Urban
Environmental Management, School of Environment, Resources and
Development (SERD) and coauthored by Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon,
Associate Professor, SERD.
According to Mr. Ghafar Ali, the work is the first-of-its-kind, since a
60-year inventory of carbon-dioxide emissions for the Pakistani city of
Lahore has been prepared. With little data existing available, a
40-year data bank, and a 20-year forecast has been created. The work
involved compiling baseline sectoral breakdown of energy use, carbon
emission and land cover and land use. A 40-year energy consumption data
from 1971 to 2010 in five sectors namely agriculture, commercial,
industry, residential, and transport was used.
The study reveals that the transportation sector is the largest emitter
of carbon dioxide in Lahore followed by commercial and industrial
sectors. The study forecasts an increasing trend in energy use in the
industrial and residential sectors, but a decreasing trend in the
agricultural sector by 2030. It adds that agriculture is the only
sector which retains its potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
since there is a decline in agriculture area, along with a shift in
energy use technology.
The paper titled “Exercising multidisciplinary approach to assess
interrelationship between energy use, carbon emission and land use
change in a metropolitan city of Pakistan,” compares and contracts
emissions with energy usage and land use. Further the paper validates
the information using satellite imagery, and contrasted land use with
carbon dioxide emissions. Land use categories included buildings and
housing, trees, grass and water bodies.
The paper can be read at this link:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-and-sustainable-energy-reviews/articles-highlights/discover-some-of-our-top-review-articles/