A Study on the Limitations of South Korea’s National Roadmap for Greenhouse Gas Reduction by 2030 and Suggestions for Improvement
Open Access
- 22 July 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Sustainability
- Vol. 11 (14), 3969
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143969
Abstract
South Korea must submit its targets for greenhouse gas reduction by 2030 to comply with the Paris Agreement. While South Korea’s government has announced a roadmap for achieving greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030, issues are present regarding the methodology used to set reduction targets, select the reduction method, and estimate the potential emissions reduction in the building sector. Accordingly, the present study identified the limitations based on an analysis of the roadmap and suggested an improvement plan for each limitation. To improve the roadmap, the methodology used to set emissions targets was changed from business-as-usual (BAU) to the absolute emissions method, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines were applied to estimate greenhouse gas emissions, and methodology for determining emissions targets by year was proposed. The reduction method has been proposed abstractly, and five methods have been suggested: Energy consumption by building age and establishment of gross floor area for cooling/heating, supply status for each type of lighting, estimation of reduction amount through supply of LED lighting, reduction amount estimation by analyzing current supply status data for home appliances and office equipment, proposal of methodology for improvement of duplicate estimation for building energy maintenance systems (BEMS), and estimation of reduction potential by applying efficiency improvement in power generating equipment.Keywords
This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
- An integrated assessment system for managing life cycle CO2 emissions of a buildingRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017
- Forecasting new and renewable energy supply through a bottom-up approach: The case of South KoreaRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017
- Forecasting Building Energy Demands With a Coupled Weather-Building Energy Model in a Dense Urban EnvironmentJournal of Solar Energy Engineering, 2016
- Development and application of a simple BEMS to measure energy consumption of buildingsEnergy and Buildings, 2015
- LEDs for energy efficient greenhouse lightingRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015
- A Study on the Development of Building Life Cycle CO2Assessment SystemJournal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction, 2014
- Estimation of CO2 emission of apartment buildings due to major construction materials in the Republic of KoreaEnergy and Buildings, 2012
- Reduce CO2 from buildings with technology to zero emissionsSustainable Cities and Society, 2012
- Modeling energy consumption and CO2 emissions at the urban scale: Methodological challenges and insights from the United StatesEnergy Policy, 2010
- A review on buildings energy consumption informationEnergy and Buildings, 2008