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Fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions in Korea: NEAT approach

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Carbon accounting is a key issue in the discussions on global warming/CO2 mitigation. This paper applies both the intergovernmental panel on climate change-reference approach (IPCC-RA) and the non-energy use emission accounting tables (NEAT) model, a material flow analysis, to estimate the carbon storage originating from the non-energy use as to assess the carbon release from the use of fossil fuels in Korea for the years 1999 and 2000. The current Korean carbon accounting seems to overestimate the carbon storage and to concomitantly underestimate CO2 emissions. This is because the gross naphtha deliveries are currently considered as feedstock use. The estimation after correction of the non-energy use statistics shows, however, that the carbon storage calculated according to the IPCC-RA are lower than those calculated using the NEAT model. This is because the IPCC default storage fraction for naphtha used in Korea seems to be too low for the Korean petrochemical production structure. A by-product of this study is the identification of a double counting of naphtha consumption in the amount of the backflows to refineries in the Korean energy balance which led to a four-year project to revise the energy balances back to 1990.

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  • Park, Hi-chun, 2005. "Fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions in Korea: NEAT approach," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 295-309.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:recore:v:45:y:2005:i:3:p:295-309
    DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2005.05.006
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    1. Weiss, Martin & Neelis, Maarten L. & Blok, Kornelis & Patel, Martin K., 2008. "Non-energy use and related carbon dioxide emissions in Germany: A carbon flow analysis with the NEAT model for the period of 1990–2003," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 52(11), pages 1252-1265.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. Gang Liu & Fan Zhang, 2022. "Land Zoning Management to Achieve Carbon Neutrality: A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-18, April.
    5. Hi-Chun Park & Martin K Patel, 2018. "Naphtha storage fraction and green house gas emissions in the Korean petrochemical industry," Energy & Environment, , vol. 29(6), pages 919-937, September.

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