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Methodology for inventorying greenhouse gas emissions from global cities

Christopher Kennedy a,, Julia Steinberger b,1, Barrie Gasson c,2, Yvonne Hansen d,3, Timothy Hillman e,4,
Miroslav Havra nek f,5, Diane Pataki g,6, Aumnad Phdungsilp h,7, Anu Ramaswami e,8,
Gara Villalba Mendez i,9
a
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
b
Vienna Institute of Social Ecology, IFF, University of Klagenfurt, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, Austria
c
School of Architecture and Planning, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
d
African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
e
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, Campus Box 113, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA
f
Charles University Environment Center, U Krize 8, 15000 Prague, Czech Republic
g
Department of Earth System Science and Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3100, USA
h
Department of Energy Management, Dhurakij Pundit University, 110/1-4 Prachachuen Rd., Laksi, Bangkok 10210, Thailand
i
Institut de Cie ncia i Tecnologia Ambientals, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Edifici Cn 08193, Bellaterra

a r t i c l e in f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: This paper describes the methodology and data used to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Received 21 January 2009 attributable to ten cities or city-regions: Los Angeles County, Denver City and County, Greater Toronto,
Accepted 21 August 2009 New York City, Greater London, Geneva Canton, Greater Prague, Barcelona, Cape Town and Bangkok.
Available online 12 September 2009
Equations for determining emissions are developed for contributions from: electricity; heating and
Keywords: industrial fuels; ground transportation fuels; air and marine fuels; industrial processes; and waste.
Urban metabolism Gasoline consumption is estimated using three approaches: from local fuel sales; by scaling from
Life-cycle analysis regional fuel sales; and from counts of vehicle kilometres travelled. A simplified version of an
Climate change intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) method for estimating the GHG emissions from
landfill waste is applied. Three measures of overall emissions are suggested: (i) actual emissions within
the boundary of the city; (ii) single process emissions (from a life-cycle perspective) associated with the
city’s metabolism; and (iii) life-cycle emissions associated with the city’s metabolism. The results and
analysis of the study will be published in a second paper.
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1. Introduction as centers of wealth and creativity, with high population densities

and economies of scale, cities must play a significant role in
With the global urban population now exceeding 50 percent, tackling global climate change. This is particularly clear in a
the inhabitants of cities are recognized as a major driver of global political context where goals and actions of groups such as the
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Satterthwaite, 2008). Moreover, C40 mayors exceed those of many national governments. As a first
step to addressing climate change many cities have established
inventories of GHG emissions, often using the simple pragmatic
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Initiatives (ICLEI, 2008). Such inventories of urban GHG emissions
ger), [email protected] (B. Gasson), [email protected] (Y. Hansen), provide a basis for action on climate change. In particular,
[email protected] (T. Hillman), [email protected] (M. Havra nek), identifying cities with better per capita performance than others
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Table 1
Definition of cities or city-regions used in the study, with their populations and year of GHG inventory.

City or city-region Definition Total land area (km2) Population Year

Bangkok City 1569 5,658,953 2005

Barcelona City 100 1,605,602 2006
Cape Town City 2454 3,497,097 2005
Denver City and County 397 579,744 2005
Geneva Canton 282 432,058 2005
London Greater London Area (GLA) 1579 7,364,100 2003
Los Angeles County (88 cities) 10,518 9,519,338 2000
New York City City 789 8,170,000 2005
Prague Greater Prague Area (GPA) 496 1,181,610 2005
Toronto Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 7195 5,555,912 2005

emissions, where the ideal approach is based on quantification of WRI / Spatial Life-cycle Components Measure
fuel consumed in a regional urban area, i.e., a commutershed. WBCSD boundary perspective
definition
Many estimates of transportation emissions from cities are based
on computer simulated measures of vehicle kilometres travelled Embodied emissions from
food and materials
(VKT) within politically defined city boundaries. How well do
consumed in cities
these approaches compare?
To develop and test a more robust and transparent inventory Out of Production Emissions upstream of
boundary chain electric powerplants
procedure, this research has undertaken a comparative study of energy use emissions (iii)
GHG emissions, including life-cycle impacts, from a small group of Scope 3 (and further
out of Upstream emissions from
global cities. These include Los Angeles (County), Denver (City &
boundary fossil fuel use
County), Greater Toronto, New York City, Greater London, Geneva emissions, (ii)
(Canton), Barcelona, Greater Prague, Cape Town and Bangkok not included
in Scope 2) Combustion of aviation and
(Table 1). These cities were chosen because they have been the marine fuels
subject of urban metabolism studies (Gasson, 2002; Sahely et al., ICLEI
2003; Emmenegger et al., 2003; Ngo and Pataki, 2008; CUEC,
Out of boundary waste
2008), urban energy or GHG studies (Baldasano et al., 1999; (landfill) emissions
Phdungsilp, 2006; Ramaswami et al., 2008), or are prominent
Out of boundary district
global cities with detailed publicly accessible GHG inventories Single heating emissions
(Mayor of London, 2006; New York City, 2007). process
Note that these existing studies were useful as background emissions
Scope 2 In boundary Out of boundary electricity
material, but not all could be used directly for this work; indeed, electricity emissions at powerplant
most of the data which are presented in this study is compiled use
(i)
from original sources and has never been published before.
Results for the determination of GHG emissions will be published In boundary fossil fuel
elsewhere (Kennedy et al., 2009). This paper describes the combustion
methodology that was used in the study, and presents a In boundary waste (landfill)
substantial new data set for the energy and waste components Scope 1 In boundary emissions
emissions
of these cities urban metabolism. In boundary industrial
The global warming potential of GHGs attributable to cities, processes and product use
including carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and several
In boundary agriculture,
other gases, is expressed in terms of carbon dioxide equivalents, forestry and other land use
eCO2. From a practical perspective, emissions of CO2 itself
dominate the urban inventory, with methane of significance for
Fig. 1. Comparison of measures for attributing greenhouse gas emission to cities
landfilled waste, and other gases mainly of significance for considering spatial boundaries and life-cycle perspective.
industrial emissions where they occur. The methodology and
data used to quantify the emissions for components of: electricity;
heating and industrial fuels; ground transportation fuels; aviation forestry and other land use (AFOLU), which are determined as per
and marine fuels; industrial processes; and waste, follows in IPCC guidelines. (Note that AFOLU emissions are typically small
Section 2 below. for cities and have been excluded in this paper.) Scope 2 emissions
Different metrics for expressing the total GHG emissions include out-of-boundary emissions due to electricity used in
attributable to cities can be developed depending on definition cities. Several further out-of-boundary emissions attributable to
of spatial boundary and life-cycle perspective. Fig. 1 shows the cities are included in Scope 3.
three measures that we use in this work (with the total emissions Here we distinguish between Scope 3 emissions that are single
attributable to cities increasing from the bottom of the diagram to process emissions and those that are production chain emissions
the top). The figure uses the terminology of the World Resources from a life-cycle perspective. Measure (ii) that we use includes
Institute/World Business Council for Sustainable Development single process emissions from out-of-boundary landfills, district
(WRI/WBSCD) to express emissions in relation to the spatial heating, aviation and marine transportation that are attributable
boundary of a city. Scope 1 emissions (our measure (i)) only to cities. Our measure (iii) would ideally include all the embodied
include those that are produced within city boundaries. These emissions associated with producing the food and materials
include in-boundary components from: fossil fuel combustion; consumed in cities, and emissions that are upstream of electric
waste; industrial processes and product use; and agriculture, powerplants. Due to data limitations, however, it only considers
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upstream emissions from fuel combustion. Further development intensity factors by the respective agencies. Since we aimed to
of these three measures of total GHG emissions is given in collect data on electricity consumption by final users (i.e., from
Section 3. the aggregation of consumer bills provided by retailers), the line
As well as contributing to the development of methodology for losses include both those in transmission and distribution. If
attributing GHG emissions to cities, this paper also presents a consumption had been based on meter readings at sub-stations
substantial new data set on energy use and wastes produced in located in the cities, then only transmission losses would need to
cities. Our comprehensive data set on energy use in ten cities fills be accounted for.
a gap in the literature identified by previous researchers (Decker The GHG emissions factors, Ielectricity (t eCO2/GWh), are
et al., 2000; Kennedy et al., 2007). typically those for the mix of powerplants in the city’s state,
province or region (Table 2). In the cases of New York City, Denver,
Geneva and Bangkok, the emissions factors reflect a mix of
2. Components of GHG inventory supplies from different scales, e.g., local and imported. In these
cases, a weighted average of the emissions intensities from the
2.1. Electricity applicable sources is used. Where residents or business indepen-
dently purchase electricity from a certified renewable energy
GHG emissions (t eCO2) attributable to electricity consumption supplier, e.g., Xcel Energy’s Windsource program in Denver, this
are determined by: too is reflected in the mix of supplies. The emission intensities
vary widely depending on the source fuels for power generation.
GHGelectricity ¼ Celectricity  L  Ielectricity ð1Þ The examples in Table 3 show how Cape Town has high emission
The electricity consumption, Celectricty (GWh), excludes that intensity due to the predominant use of coal in South Africa, while
from combined heat and power (CHP) plants within the urban Toronto’s intensity is relatively low due to substantial use of
region and electricity derived from the combustion of waste. From nuclear and hydro power in Ontario.
a data collection perspective it was easier to use a convention of
including emissions from CHP and waste combustion under 2.2. Heating and industrial fuels
heating fuels and waste, respectively. Geneva’s 2793 GWh of
electricity consumption in Table 2 does not include the 670 GWh Emissions in this category are primarily due to fossil fuels used
of electricity used at the CERN particle accelerator facility in 2005. for heating in buildings, e.g., space heating, water heating and
CERN contracts half of its electricity from Switzerland and half cooking. Also included are fossil fuels used by CHP facilities within
from France. cities (mainly natural gas and oil) and, where data are available,
Electrical line losses range from 5% to 12% as shown by the loss fossil fuels combusted by industry.
factor, L, in Table 2. Line loss factors for Barcelona, Geneva, London GHG emissions (t eCO2) are determined by:
and Prague are estimates from national level data (IEA, 2008). The X
loss factors for Denver and Los Angeles are unknown (to the GHGheating ¼ Cfuel  Ifuel ð2Þ
authors), but were included in the computation of the GHG heating fuel

Table 2
Electricity use, line losses and GHG intensity for the ten cities.

Electricity consumption GWh Line loss factor GHG intensity t eCO2/GWh (incl. line loss) Source

Bangkok 28,500 1.081 550 BMA (2008), ERM-Siam (2005)

Barcelona 7479 1.11 143 ICAEN, Baldasano et al (1999)
Cape Town 12,209 1.078 969 City of Cape Town
Denver 6659 Unknown 792 Xcel Energy
Geneva 2793 1.07 54 Office Cantonal de la Statistique
London 39,237 1.09 469 Mayor of London (2006)
Los Angeles 63,919 Unknown 368 California Energy Commission
New York City 49,567 1.055 497 New York City (2007)
Prague 5506 1.06 710 ERO (2008), Fott et al. (2008)
Toronto 55,778 1.12 246 Hydro One, Environment Canada

Table 3
Examples of electricity supply mixes for Cape Town and Toronto, and their GHG intensity factors. The supply mixes are those for South Africa and Ontario, respectively.

Source Cape Town (South Africa) Toronto (Ontario)

Supply mix (%) GHG intensity (t CO2e/GWh) Supply mix (%) GHG intensity (t CO2e /GWh)

Coal 92.0% 978 17.7 1006

Natural gas 8.8 432
Oil 0.5 832
Hydro 2.0% 0 22.3 0
Nuclear 6.0% 0 50.2 0
Other 0.6 0

Overall generation 899 220

Line loss factor 1.078 1.12

Overall consumption 969 246
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The energy contents of fuels used, Cfuel (TJ), is given for each cities are particularly interesting: Cape Town uses no natural gas,
city in Table 4. In some cases the energy content was calculated and mainly relies on a mixture of gasoil, heavy furnace fuel,
from volumes of fuels consumed. For Los Angeles, the fuel use was paraffin, LPG and coal; Bangkok has a large and diverse mix of
estimated based on Californian data (Ngo and Pataki, 2008). fuels including substantial quantities of rice husk and bagasse.
Natural gas is the predominant fuel used in the European and The default (tier 1) IPCC (2006a) GHG emissions factors
North American cities, with the exception of Geneva, which uses for fuels, Ifuel (t eCO2/TJ), were used for calculating direct
substantial quantities of fuel oil. Prague is also supplied by one of emissions. Emissions factors for upstream emissions are discussed
the longest heat pipelines in the world, with steam traveling up to in section 3.
60 km from a coal fired power plant at Melnik. The remaining two
2.3. Ground transportation fuels

Table 4 The fuels used for ground transportation within cities are
Heating and industrial fuel use (TJ) in the ten cities.
primarily gasoline and diesel, with small amounts of LPG and
Bangkok (Source: Phdungsilp, 2006) natural gas used in some cases. Emissions due to use of electrified
Wood 8725 modes of transportation, e.g., subways and streetcars, were
Fuel oil 32,217 counted in the electricity category.
Natural gas 15,407
GHG emissions for ground transportation fuels (t eCO2) are
LPG 12,041
Kerosene 322 determined by:
Gasoline 595 X
GHGtransport ¼ Cfuel  Ifuel ð3Þ
Diesel 6033
transport fuel
Coal and coke 20,331
Lignite 22,035
with default IPCC GHG emissions factors again used for direct
Anthracite 632
Rice husk 8449
emissions.
Bagasse 33,427 Emissions from ground transportation can contribute as much
Charcoal 314 as 20–40% of a city’s GHG emissions, but are the greatest source of

Barcelona (Source: Agencia d’Energia de Barcelona, Area de Medi Ambient
uncertainty in the total inventory due to the estimation
de l’ajuntament de Barcelona) procedures involved. Therefore, in order to test and verify
Natural gas 23,252 calculations of gasoline consumption in cities, three different
LPG 895 methods were applied.
Cape Town (Sources: Caltex, City of Cape Town, 2003) The preferred approach, where data are available and depend-
Gasoil 20,511 ing on the spatial boundaries of the city, is to use local fuel sales
Heavy furnace fuel 12,341 data. This approach is appropriate where the city-region is a
Illumin. paraffin 8012
LPG 9734
commutershed, i.e., for which the number of vehicle trips over the
Power paraffin 23 border of the city-region is small relative to the number of trips
Coal 3788 within it. For example, in 2006, the number of auto and rail trips
Wood 561 within the Greater Toronto Area was 12.078 million, while the
Denver (Source: Xcel Energy) number of daily commuter trips into and out of the area was just
Natural gas 42,622 535,000 (based on Transportation Tomorrow Survey data). Gaso-
Geneva (Source: Office Cantonal de la Statistique, Service Cantonal de line consumption for Cape Town, Geneva and Greater Toronto is
l’e nergie) established by this approach (Table 5a), although in the case of
Natural gas 8891 Geneva there is some substantial cross-border commuting from
Fuel oil 12,746
France. Sales data are also established for the City of Bangkok,
Coal 3
Wood 109 even though the commutershed is much larger than the city. For
Waste* 404 Greater Toronto, retail sales data are adjusted upwards by 11%
Solar thermal 10 (based on provincial fuel sales data) to account for non-retail, bulk
London (Source: Mayor of London, 2006) purchasing of gasoline.
Natural gas 299,908 The second approach is to use gasoline consumption values
Oil 12,093 estimated from vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) within cities
Coal 255
(Table 5b). The VKT for cities is typically estimated using a
CHP 18,392
computer model, or by a vehicle counting survey. The calculation
Los Angeles (Source: scaled from Bemis 2006) of fuel use by this approach also requires estimation of fuel
Natural gas 216,409
Petroleum 13,410
efficiency for typical vehicles. This approach is perhaps the most
Coal 167 common, and has been applied here to Bangkok, Barcelona,
Denver, London, New York City and Prague. It has some
New York City (Source: New York City, 2007)
Natural gas 252,707
Residual fuel oil 34,130 Table 5a
Distillate fuel oil 77,656 Estimation of gasoline consumption from sales within city or city-region
Kerosene 4475
Steam (CHP) 45,890 Gasoline sales Source
(ML)
Prague (Source: Prague City Hall, 2008)
Natural gas 37,397
Bangkok 2741 Department of Energy Business, Ministry of
Fuel oil 232
Energy
Coal 8181
Cape 1249 City of Cape Town
Steam (coal power plant) 9454
Town
Toronto (Sources: Enbridge Gas and Union Gas) Geneva 260 Office Cantonal de la Statistique
Natural gas 327,000 Toronto 6691 Kent Marketing & Statistics Canada
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Table 5b
Estimation of gasoline consumption based on vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT).

VKT (billion km) Fuel efficiency (km/L) Gasoline consumption (ML)

Bangkok (Source: BMA, 2008; Tanatvanit et al., 2003)

Passenger car 23.272 11.67 1994
Microbus & pickup 0.665 12.32 54
Van & pickup 0.873 12.42 70
Motortricycle 0.005 12.00 0.4
Urban taxi 1.102 11.63 95
Fixed route taxi 0.090 13.00 7
Motortricycle taxi 0.005 12.50 0.4
Motorcycle 10.790 24.57 439
Business taxi 0.015 11.63 1
2662

Barcelona (Source: Servei d’Ordenacio & i Seguretat Vial de la Generalitat de Catalunya: Road Planning and Safety Service of the Barcelona City Council)-
Cars 1.675 10.15 165
Motorcycles 0.600 35.29 17
Trucks and vans 0.168 6.21 27
209

Denver (Source: Ramaswami et al., 2008)

Gasoline vehicles 8.045 6.38 1234

London (Source: Mayor of London, 2006)

Cars Unknown Unknown 1711
Motorcycles Unknown Unknown 32
Goods vehicles Unknown Unknown 54
1797

New York City (Source: New York City, 2007)

Passenger vehicles 18.167 7.48 2428
Light trucks 10.274 5.87 1751
4179

Prague (Source: Transport yearbook, CDV, 2007 estimates)

Gasoline cars Unknown Unknown 357

Table 5c
Estimation of gasoline consumption by scaling from sales within a wider region.

Wider region Gasoline consumption of wider region (ML) Scaling factor Estimated gasoline consumption (ML)

Los Angeles California 52,700 0.28 14,751

New York City New York State 21,448 0.192 4107
Toronto Ontario 15,857 0.441 6988

advantages over the fuel sales approach when applied to central approaches can be gained. For Toronto, the estimate of 6988
cities that experience large cross-boundary commuter traffic million litres scaled from provincial consumption is 4.4% higher
(sales may occur outside boundaries). A modelling approach is than the 6691 million litres determined from fuel sales. While for
also preferred by the IPCC for determining CH4 and N2O New York City, the scaled estimate of 4107 million litres is 1.7%
emissions, which depend on traffic conditions and cold-starts. lower than the 4179 million litres determined from VKT. Finally,
For CO2 emissions, however, the IPCC prefers the use of fuel sales for Bangkok, the estimate of 2662 million litres based on VKT, is
data. One of the drawbacks of modelling VKT, or estimating it 2.9% lower than the estimate of 2741 million litres from fuel sales.
from vehicle counts, is that techniques may differ between cities; Overall, the comparisons show that the three approaches can
each city has its own unique model. produce reasonably close estimates, provided that the VKT
The third approach is to estimate a city’s gasoline consumption calculations are conducted appropriately.
by scaling from state, provincial, or regional data (Table 5c). Motor Consumption of other ground transportation fuels is estimated
vehicle registrations, R, were used to determine a scaling factor for using the same approaches as used for gasoline (Table 6).
Toronto and New York City:

Rcity 2.4. Aviation and marine transportation

Ccity ¼ C ð4Þ
Rregion region
There are differing approaches to the quantification of aviation
The scaling factor for Los Angeles County is based on and marine emissions that occur with the transportation of
population, which corresponded closely to aggregate travel people and goods to and from cities. In some studies, aviation and
commute times from the US census (Ngo and Pataki, 2008). This marine emissions are excluded. This is because they are mainly
approach is the least desirable of the three, as is assumes that (but not entirely) cross-boundary emissions; and, moreover, may
average annual vehicle kilometres in the city are the same as for be considered as beyond the control of local governments. Other
the wider region. Nevertheless, scaling from regional data may be studies, such as that by Carney et al. (2009), include emissions
necessary when reliable data at the city level is unavailable. from domestic aviation, but only include take-off and landings for
As gasoline use in three of the cities has been determined by international aviation. Such an approach is consistent with the
more than one method, a sense of the accuracy of the three United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which
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Table 6
Consumption of other ground transportation fuels.

Diesel (ML) LPG (TJ) Natural gas (TJ) Source

Bangkok 2094 0 0 BMA (2008), Tanatvanit et al. (2003)

Barcelona 266 0.054 131 Barcelona City Council
Cape Town 724 0 0 City of Cape Town
Denver 197 0 0 Ramaswami et al. (2008)
Geneva 51 0 0 Office Cantonal de la Statistique
London 1238 0 0 Mayor of London (2006)
Los Angeles 3212 1699 4296 scaled from Bemis (2006)
New York City 657 0 0 New York City (2007)
Prague 281 0 0 Transport yearbook, est. (2008)
Toronto 2011 0 0 Kent Marketing, Statistics Canada

excludes GHG emissions from cruising on international flights, Table 7

and international marine activity. Other studies, such as those for Jet fuel loaded onto planes at major airports in the ten cities.

London (GLA, 2007), New York City (2007) and Denver (Ramas-
Jet fuel Airports (Source)
wami et al., 2008), have reported GHG emissions based on fuels (ML)
loaded at airports and marine ports within their boundaries. This
approach, including all emissions from domestic and international Bangkok 4293 Donmaung Airport (Dept of
Energy Business, Ministry of
aviation/marine transportation, provides a more complete mea-
Energy)
sure of the carbon dependence of a city’s economy. It recognizes Barcelona 1058 Barcelona Airport- El Prat
cities as being global service centres—the headquarters, financial (scaled from national jet fuel
centers, and key gateways between national/regional economies stats.)
(Sassen, 1991; Taylor, 2004). Overall, the choice of approach Cape Town 1211 Cape Town International
Airport (Caltex)
perhaps depends on the user of the inventory; there is currently
Denver 326 Denver International Airport
no standard approach for quantifying aviation and marine (Ramaswami et al., 2008)
emissions for cities. Geneva 294 Geneva International Airport
In our study, GHG emissions from international and domestic (Office Cantonal de la
Statistique)
aviation and marine transportation were sought, in order to
London 9100 Heathrow and City Airports
include impacts from the movement of people and goods to and (calculated from GLA, 2007)
from the ten cities. (Technically, it is movement away from cities Los Angeles 4202 LAX, BUR, and LGB Airports
that is quantified, since calculations are based on fuel loaded in (scaled from statewide CO2
cities.) There are still challenges to assigning emissions to cities stats.)
New York City 5615 JFK and LaGuardia Airports
under this wider approach. Perhaps it might be appropriate to
(New York City, 2007))
include only those emissions associated with travel by residents Prague 420 Ruzyn Airport (Fott et al, 2008
of a city, or movements of goods consumed only by residents of a Toronto 1830 Toronto Pearson Airport
city. On the other hand, if a city is a major gateway, or an attractor (GTAA)
for visitors and conventions, as is the case for some of the ten,
then that gateway function is part of what the city does—and
contributes to its economy. There are further challenges with
passengers transferring between planes at airports; and airports Table 8
GHG emissions from marine fuels loaded onto ships at port cities.
serving wider regions than just cities. Ideally, the GHG emissions
from passenger aviation attributed to a city might be determined GHG emissions Source
from Eq. 5 below, as has been demonstrated for Denver from marine
(Ramaswami et al., 2008): fuels (kt eCO2)

X ncity Bangkok Unknown Fuel data from Caltex

GHGaviation ¼ Ifuel  Cfuel  ð5Þ Barcelona Unknown
regional airports
nregion
Cape Town 10,100
London Small Scaled from statewide stats,
where Ifuel is the emissions factor for jet kerosene (other aviation using cargo tonnage
fuels could also be included); Cfuel the energy content of jet Los Angeles 16,096 New York City (2007)
New York City 6200
kerosene loaded onto planes; ncity the annual number of surface
Toronto Small
passenger transportation trips from the city to the airport; and
nregion the annual number of surface passenger transportation
trips from the wider region to the airport.
In the case of Denver, Ramaswami et al. (2008) were able
establish that 22% of fuel loaded at Denver International Airport within city boundaries has been allocated to the city, despite the
was attributable to activities of the City and County of Denver, potential for airports to serve a larger regions and transferring
which is one of nine counties and 25 cities in the region. passengers.
Based on availability of data, however, the only consistent It might also be noted that passengers and freight can enter
means to determine GHG emissions from air and marine and leave cities by ground transportation modes such as railways,
transportation for the other nine cities was from the full volumes buses and trucks. Emissions from these modes were not
of fuels loaded onto planes and ships at the cities’ respective considered in this work, since these emissions would be counted
airports and marine transport terminals (Tables 7 and 8). For the in the ground transportation of neighbouring and nearby regions.
nine cities other than Denver, 100% of fuel loaded at airports (i.e., double-counting is avoided).
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2.5. Emissions from industrial processes and product use are given by:
^ landfill ¼ 21  Mlandfill  L0 ð1  frec Þð1  OXÞ
GHG ð6Þ
Industrial process emissions include those from activities such
as cement manufacturing and limestone consumption. (They where Mlandfill is the mass of urban waste sent to landfill in the
exclude emissions from combustion for industrial energy supply.) inventory year (Table 10); L0 the methane generation potential;
Data for this category of emissions was only available for three the value 21 is the 100-year global warming potential of methane
cities: Los Angeles, Prague and Toronto (Table 9); in other cases (IPCC, 2007); and frec the fraction of methane emissions that are
industrial process emissions may or may not have been negligible. recovered at the landfill. The oxidation factor, OX, in Eq. (6) is
For Los Angeles, industrial emissions were estimated from a state- typically no higher than 0.1; it was excluded from our approach
wide inventory, weighted by industry employment. Prague has due to lack of supporting data.
one cement plant reporting emissions for a national allocation The methane recovery factor, frec, is a significant source of
plan for emissions trading. The Toronto data was that from uncertainty. Several studies have tried to measure recovery
industrial facilities with large emissions (4100,000 t eCO2) that system efficiency. Oonk and Boom (1995) reports efficiency
report to Environment Canada, excluding energy supply facilities. ranging between 10% and 85% (average 37%). More recently,
Scharff et al. (2003) measured recovery efficiencies on four sites to
be 9, 50, 53 and 33 percent, whereas Spokas et al. (2006) and Diot
2.6. Waste
et al. (2001) measured efficiency above 90 percent. Willumsen
(2003) gives maximum recovery efficiency in OECD countries of
We used a simplified version of the IPCC recommended
80% and in non-OECD countries of 50%. Methane recovery
approach for estimating the GHG emissions from landfill waste.
efficiencies for the ten cities in this study have been determined
The ideal aim would be to calculate the methane emissions for a
at very few landfills. The general assumption made by most of the
given year due to the decay of waste placed in the landfill during
cities is that the methane recovery factor is about 0.75. This value
that year and previous years. The IPCC (2006b) recommends an
has been used for eight of the ten cities, the exceptions being
approach called First Order Decay for estimating such emissions
Bangkok and Cape Town, which do not currently capture methane.
based on the Scholl Canyon model. The data requirements are,
The methane generation potential, L0 (t CH4/t waste), is
however, cumbersome, requiring ideally 20 or more years of data
determined using the IPCC (2006b) approach as follows:
for each facility within each city, and good estimates of decay
coefficients. We undertook a pragmatic adaptation of the IPCC 16
L0 ¼ MCF  DOC  DOCF  F ð7Þ
(1996) approach called Total Yield Gas. 12
This alternative approach estimates the long-term GHG where:
emissions for the waste landfilled in the inventory year,
recognizing that the emissions would be released over several
MCF CH4 correction factor (equal to 1.0 for managed land-
years. The long-term GHG emissions from landfill waste (t eCO2)
fills);
DOC degradable organic carbon (t C/t waste);
Table 9
DOCF fraction DOC dissimilated (default range 0.5–0.6; as-
Industrial process emissions determined for Los Angeles, Prague and Toronto.
sumed equal to 0.6);
Industrial process GHG F fraction of methane in landfill gas (range: 0.4–0.6;
emissions (t eCO2) assumed equal to 0.5);
16/12 stoichiometric ratio between methane and carbon.
Los Angeles (Source: scaled from statewide GHG inventory using employment
statistics in the industrial sector)
Cement production 1,700,000 The degradable organic carbon, DOC, is estimated from waste
Limestone & dolomite consumption 100,000 fractions, fi, as follows:
Soda ash consumption 100,000 X
Semiconductor manufacture 200,000 DOC ¼ Wi  fi ð8Þ
i
2,100,000
Prague (Source: National Allocation Plan for emission trading) where the weightings Wi are as shown in Table 11. Waste fractions
Cement production (one plant) 505,211
in categories of food, garden, paper, wood, textiles and industrial
Toronto (Source: Environment Canada) are given for the study cities in Table 12.
Two cement plants 2,755,000
Two points of clarification are required for Table 12. First, in
Petro-Canada Lubricant Centre 430,370
3,185,370 the cases of Barcelona, Los Angeles and Prague, the waste fractions
used are regional default values from the IPCC (2006b). Second,

Table 10
Incinerated and landfill waste.

Incinerated waste (t) Landfill waste (t) Source

Bangkok 0 4,562,500 BMA Dept. of Public Cleaning

Barcelona 296,600 265,900 ICAEN (2008)
Cape Town 0 2,626,320 City of Cape Town
Denver 0 725,000 Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site
Geneva 321,400 149,460 Rapport d’exploitation des Cheneviers
London 0 10,320,000 Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (2002)
Los Angeles 0 11,379,617 LA County, Public Works
New York City 0 7,931,868 New York City (2007)
Prague 201,200 54,000 Prague City Hall (2008)
Toronto 65,700 4,091,500 Waste Diversion Ontario
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Table 11 The second measure is similar to that currently reported by

Weight fraction of DOC (degradable organic carbon) of particular waste streams most municipalities in that it includes all emissions from
(Source: IPCC waste model spreadsheet, available at http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.
electricity use and waste disposal (see for example, ICLEI’s
jp/public/2006gl/vol5.html).
measure in Fig. 1). Only, our measure also includes the direct
Waste fraction Wi emissions from fuel loaded at airports and harbours, which result
from the city’s participation in a global trading network.
Food 0.15 The third measure has the same components as the second
Garden 0.2
Paper 0.4
measure, but uses GHG emission factors for the lifecycle of fuels,
Wood 0.43 rather than for direct emissions. Ideally, this measure would
Textiles 0.24 include GHG emissions associated with energy embodied in food,
Industrial 0.15 construction materials and other critical products imported by
cities to meet basic human needs. Some input–output studies
have established the upstream CO2 emissions or indirect energy
Table 12 associated with household consumption (Weber and Matthews,
Components of landfill waste, used in calculation of degradable organic content. 2007; Cohen et al., 2005; Pachauri and Spreng, 2002; Reinders et
al., 2003). Specifically at an urban level, Ramaswami et al. (2008)
Waste fraction, fi, of landfill waste
found that upstream emissions for food and cement contributed
Food Garden Paper Wood Textiles Industrial Other 1.7 Mt eCO2 to Denver’s GHG inventory, equivalent to 12% of the
city’s emissions. The data for including similar contributions for
Bangkok 0.44 – 0.10 0.05 0.05 0.30 0.06 the other nine global cities has not been established here. (A data
Barcelona 0.37 – 0.17 0.11 – – 0.35
Cape Town 0.10 0.05 0.60 0.025 0.025 – 0.20
set for 8 US cities is currently being determined by Hillman and
Denver 0.34 0.12 0.13 0.065 0.065 0.28 0.28 Ramaswami.) For eight of the ten global cities, however, it has
Geneva – – – – – 0.07 0.93 been possible to determine the upstream emissions associated
London 0.04 – 0.08 0.05 – 0.08 0.75 with fuels. There are still challenges though with selecting
Los Angeles 0.34 – 0.23 0.06 0.04 0.10 0.21
appropriate life-cycle emissions factors, as these have been found
New York City 0.22 0.05 0.10 0.14 – – 0.50
Prague 0.30 – 0.22 0.075 0.05 0.08 0.28 to vary significantly between studies (MacLean and Lave, 2003).
Toronto 0.14 0.07 0.33 0.06 – 0.12 0.28 Selection of upstream emissions factors for fuels was largely
based on review of two European and two North American
datasets (Table 13). Appropriate life-cycle data for fuels could not
there are significant differences between the waste fractions for be found for South Africa and Thailand, so Cape Town and
various cities in part because each city has its own unique way of Bangkok were not included in this part of the analysis. The first of
reporting waste outputs. In particular, different cities may or may the European datasets, MEET, was useful in that it included
not report construction wastes (under ‘other’ in Table 12). Thus, separate upstream factors for individual nations (Lewis, 1997).
differences in the reported waste fractions have to be interpreted Differences between factors for Spain, Switzerland and the UK
with an understanding of what is included in the ‘whole.’ were found to be relatively small; only for jet kerosene did the
For four cities, Barcelona, Geneva, Prague and Toronto, emissions factors differ by more than 1 t eCO2/TJ. Thus, the use of
emissions from waste incineration were included, based on local generalized European factors seems reasonable. The upstream
studies in those cities. emissions reported by MEET were, however, consistently smaller
than the European values in the Ecoinvent database (Frischknecht
and Rebitzer, 2005). Possible explanations for the discrepancy
3. Overall measures of emissions may include: the age of the data, changes in crude oil supply mix,
selection of heating values, and exclusion of infrastructure in the
To accommodate the effects of spatial and life-cycle bound- life-cycle analysis. The Ecoinvent database was hence chosen for
aries, three different measures of overall emissions are used in all four European cities.
this study (Fig. 1). These are: The two North American datasets were generally in close
agreement. Natural Resource’s Canada’s GHGenius (2004) data-
base has emissions factors for both Canada and the United States,
(i) physical emissions within the boundary of the city (WRI/
which only differ by more than 1 t eCO2/TJ in the case of diesel.
WBCSD Scope 1);
The US GHGenius upstream values for gasoline and diesel fuels
(ii) single process emissions from end-use activities associated
were also in good agreement with values in the US DOE’s GREET
with the city’s metabolism;
database; although there was a difference of 3 t eCO2/TJ for LPG.
(iii) extended life-cycle emissions (i.e., including upstream pro-
Neither GREET nor GHGenius had values for jet fuel, but the
duction chain processes) associated with the city’s metabo-
upstream processing of jet fuel is similar to that of diesel, so an
lism.
approximate life-cycle intensity of 92.5 t eCO2/TJ was established.
Also, while GHGenius has upstream emissions factors for natural
The first measure is predominantly composed of emissions from gas, a slightly higher value of 67.9 t eCO2/TJ was used; this was
fossil fuel combustion within the city boundaries. Emissions from based on Canadian specific processing data from GaBi4 (2002) and
electricity production typically occur outside of the physical distribution losses reported by TransCanada pipelines. With these
boundaries of most of the cities; where this occurs they are two exceptions above, GHGenius was used to determine Toronto’s
excluded in measure (i). Only Barcelona, New York City and upstream emissions, while a combination of GREET and US
Geneva have significant quantities of electricity generated within GHGenius data were used for Denver, Los Angeles and New York
their boundaries (Geneva’s domestic electricity, however, is City.
mostly hydraulic which has negligible emissions). Some cities Perhaps the most interesting finding from this comparison of
also export their solid waste outside of their boundaries. So where life-cycle databases was that North American upstream emission
this occurs, emissions from landfill methane are not included in factors are typically 5–10 t eCO2/TJ higher than those in the
this measure. European databases. Possible explanations for the lower European
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Table 13
Direct and lifecycle GHG emissions intensity for fuels (t eCO2/TJ).

Energy content (TJ/ Direct emissions (t eCO2/TJ) Lifecycle emissions (t eCO2/TJ)

ML) IPCC1
Canada USA USA Europe Spain, Switz. UK
(GHGenius) (GHGenius) (GREET) (Ecoinvent) (MEET)

Gasoline (low 34.8 72.2 94.9 94.6 92.8 85.9 81.6–81.9

sulphur)
Diesel 37.8 75.2 92.3 93.8 94.0 85.4 82.4–82.8
Jet kerosene 35.1 72.0 Not given Not given 92.52 81.8 76.4–79.1
LPG (petroleum 26.8 66.1 81.0 80.8 76.4 76.43 71.9–72.7
based)
Marine fuel Not used 78.9 94.1 94.4 Not given Not given Not given
Natural gas (dry) N/A 56.1 67.94 63.8 Not given 61.6 Not given
Fuel oil Varies 77.83 91.6 91.5 Not given 88.1 83.3–83.7

Coal: N/A
Anthracite 98.09 100.8 100.8 Not given 101.6 Not given
Coking/ 94.43 107.1 107.0 Not given 1075 Not given
Bituminous

Values in bold are used in the study.

Note 1: Includes CO2, N2O and CH4 emissions
Note 2: North American emission factor for Jet Kerosene of 92.5 t eCO2/TJ was determined by assuming the same upstream contribution as diesel fuel.
Note 3: Lifecycle emission factor for LPG in Europe is an estimate based on differences between Ecoinvent and MEET data for other fuels.
Note 4: Canadian lifecycle emission factor for natural gas was determined from processing data from GaBi4 and distribution losses reported by TransCanada pipelines.
Note 5: European emissions factor for coking coal is based on GHGenuis (USA).

factors include differences in feedstocks, shorter distribution Acknowledgements

distances, and, where relevant, lower GHG intensities for
electricity production. Further study into the differences in Julia Steinberger was supported by the European Community’s
upstream emission factors between Europe and North America – Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant
and possibly other continents – is warranted. For the purpose of agreement 212034. The GHG accounting for Denver was sup-
this study, it means that even if levels of consumption were equal, ported by grants from the US Department of Education GAANN
larger GHG footprints are expected for Denver, Los Angeles, New Program and the City & County of Denver.
York City and Toronto, than Barcelona, Geneva, London and The assistance of Julius Mattai of the Greater London Authority,
Prague. Jonathan Dickinson of the City of New York and two anonymous
reviewers is greatly appreciated.

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