Estimation of GHG emissions in Egypt up to the year 2020

Conference · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1994 · World Resource Review; (United States)

OSTI ID:6596586

ElMahgary, Y; Abdel-Fattah, A I; Shama, M A ^[1]

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1. and others

Within the frame of UNEP's project on the Methodologies of Determining the Costs of Abatement of GHG Emissions, a case study on Egypt was undertaken by VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) in cooperation with the Egyptian Environment Authority Agency (EEAA). Both the bottom-up or engineering models and the top-down or the macroeconomic models were used. In the bottom-up approach, the economic sectors were divided into seven groups: petroleum industry, power generation, heavy industry, light industry, residential and commercial sector, transport and agriculture and domestic wastes. First, a comprehensive inventory for the year 1990 was prepared for all the GHG emissions mainly, but not exclusively, from energy sources. This included CO[sub 2], CH[sub 4] and N[sub 2]O. A base scenario of economic and energy growth of Egypt for business-as-usual alternative was fixed using the results of several optimization processes undertaken earlier by the National Committee of Egypt. GHG emissions of the different sources in this base scenario were then determined using LEAP model and spread sheets.

• OSTI ID: 6596586
• Report Number(s): CONF-940422--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: World Resource Review; (United States) Journal Volume: 6:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AFRICA
ARAB COUNTRIES
CLIMATIC CHANGE
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
EGYPTIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
EMISSION
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FORECASTING
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
GREENHOUSE GASES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MIDDLE EAST