IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/recore/v45y2005i3p195-209.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Carbon dioxide emissions from non-energy use of fossil fuels: Summary of key issues and conclusions from the country analyses

Author

Listed:
  • Patel, Martin
  • Neelis, Maarten
  • Gielen, Dolf
  • Olivier, Jos
  • Simmons, Tim
  • Theunis, Jan

Abstract

The non-energy use of fossil fuels is a source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that is not negligible and has been increasing substantially in the last three decades. Current emission estimates for this source category are subject to major uncertainties. One important reason is that non-energy use as published in energy statistics is not defined in a consistent manner, rendering calculation results based on these data incomparable across countries (concerns in particular the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reference Approach). Further reasons are the complexity and interlinkage of the energy and material flows in the chemical/petrochemical sector and the current use of storage fractions as default values in the IPCC Reference Approach, which are based on a different definition of storage and refer to other flows than those available from energy statistics. Several other shortcomings of the IPCC Reference Approach are identified in this paper, e.g. the fact that it neglects international trade of synthetic organic products.

Suggested Citation

  • Patel, Martin & Neelis, Maarten & Gielen, Dolf & Olivier, Jos & Simmons, Tim & Theunis, Jan, 2005. "Carbon dioxide emissions from non-energy use of fossil fuels: Summary of key issues and conclusions from the country analyses," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 195-209.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:recore:v:45:y:2005:i:3:p:195-209
    DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.05.002
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344905000704
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.05.002?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Wei-Ming Chen & Hana Kim, 2019. "Circular economy and energy transition: A nexus focusing on the non-energy use of fuels," Energy & Environment, , vol. 30(4), pages 586-600, June.
    2. Neelis, M.L. & Patel, M. & Gielen, D.J. & Blok, K., 2005. "Modelling CO2 emissions from non-energy use with the non-energy use emission accounting tables (NEAT) model," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 226-250.
    3. Olivier, Jos G.J. & Peters, Jeroen A.H.W., 2005. "CO2 from non-energy use of fuels: A global, regional and national perspective based on the IPCC Tier 1 approach," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 210-225.
    4. Neelis, M.L. & Patel, M. & Blok, K., 2005. "CO2 emissions and carbon storage resulting from the non-energy use of fossil fuels in the Netherlands, NEAT results for 1993–1999," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 251-274.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:recore:v:45:y:2005:i:3:p:195-209. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kai Meng (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/resources-conservation-and-recycling .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.