Viet Nam News-28 Oct 2017
More than 90 per cent of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city’s CO2 emissions in 2013 came from transportation and stationary energy, which refers to fuel consumption for electricity generation, manufacturing, construction and others like domestic heating.
Transportation accounted for 45 per cent of the emissions, mainly from vehicle exhaust.
The figures were released at a workshop to review the outcomes of the HCM City component of a project to “Support the Planning and Implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions” (SPI-NAMA) initiated by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Thursday.
JICA collaborated with the city to enable a proper understanding and continuous monitoring of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the city and completed its GHG inventory for 2013.
According to a JICA report, Việt Nam’s CO2 emissions in 2010 and HCM City’s in 2013 were 246.8 million tons and 38.5 million tons respectively.
Their corresponding populations were 87.1 million and 7.8 million, meaning HCM City was responsible for 16 per cent of the country’s CO2 emissions despite having only 9 per cent of its population.
The report also shows that compared with other city members of C40, a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change, HCM City’s emissions per capita were 4.2 ton, or similar to Seoul (4.6 tons), London (4.7 tons), and Buenos Aires (4.4 tons) though it trailed far behind them in terms of per capita GDP.
