Denpasar (news): Communities and industries in parts of North America bearing the title of largest producer of carbon dioxide gas emissions in the world, while Europe is only half of them while in South Asia at least contribute to greenhouse gases that cause global climate change.
Similarly, scientific findings journal Environment and Urbanization issued Publication Saga and the International Institute for Environment and Development, as received by AFP, in Denpasar, Wednesday [26.01].
Chief Specialist of Urban Population and Climate Change World Bank, Daniel Hoornweg, who led the writing of the report states, "Cities around the world are often blamed for the greenhouse gas emissions even though there are many cities that produce very little emissions. Cities like this there are also even in industrialized countries. "
The report states, the average production of greenhouse gases per resident a year in the cities of industrialized countries is 15-30 tons.
"The people of the cities in South Asia in general only produce 0.5 tons of this gas in a year," said Hoornweg. The study was conducted in 100 cities in 33 countries with diverse backgrounds, ranging from leading industrial nations to underdeveloped countries.
Case in Brazil shows the results surprising because there are cities that emit greenhouse gas emissions are even lower than similar gas production in the cities of poorer countries in Asia and Africa.
City of London produces greenhouse gas cacao lower than Cape Town in South Africa. This gas emissions per resident in Denver, United States, two times more than similar emissions in New York that have more population but lower the vehicle population.
In Toronto, Canada, the emission per population in small towns that have good infrastructure is only 1.3 tons a year, compared with 13 tons of similar gas emissions in the region densely populated major cities.
"It appears that lifestyle and consumption patterns become a major factor in producing the population of this greenhouse gas. From the perspective of the production of this gas emissions, Shanghai in China higher but from the perspective of consumption, the production of emissions are even lower, "said Hoornweg.
From the production of greenhouse gas emissions, a prosperous city with a population of resource-intensive lifestyle can have a lower per capita emissions. But from the perspective of consumption, the city was actually high greenhouse gas production.
"This report reminds us that the towns were prosperous and the prosperity of its citizens that actually causes the emission of greenhouse gases, not cities in general. Cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in fact have the emissions of this gas in a low number. The challenge to them about this is to keep the greenhouse gas production was still low at the time of their more prosperous, "he said. (Ant)
