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CASE STUDIES
KEETHA in Malaysia has i. Urban Transport: traffic management.
developed performance Emphasising a shift The development of
benchmarks for reducing towards sustainable pedestrian- friendly
greenhouse gas emissions, transport modes such infrastructure is also
concentrating on four principal as BRTS and MRTS, highlighted.
areas: Urban Transport, Urban promoting walking
Environment, Buildings, and and cycling over ii. Urban Environment:
Urban Infrastructure. Each of private vehicle use, Strategies include site
these elements encompasses adopting clean vehicles, selection that prioritises
specific strategies for reducing and implementing development within
carbon footprints: vehicle speed and urban footprints to limit
sprawl and encourage
Table 1. Assessment for National Green House Gas Inventories
SECTOR SUB SECTORS GREENHOUSE GASES
Energy ° Stationary Combustion ° Carbon Dioxide
° Mobile Combustion ° Methane Nitrous Oxide
° Fugitive emissions ° Perfluorocarbons
° CO , transport, injection and geological storage
2
Industrial ° Mineral industry emissions ° Sulphur hexafluoride
processes and ° Chemical industry emissions ° Nitrogen trifluoride
product use ° Metal industry emissions ° Trifluoromethyl sulphur
° Non-energy products from fuels and solvents pentafluoride
used ° Halogen ethers
° Electronics industry emissions ° Other Halocarbons
° Emissions of fluorinated substitutes for ozone-
depleting substances
° Other products manufactured and used
Agriculture, ° Forest land
forestry and ° Cropland
other land use ° Grassland
° Wetlands
° Settlement
° Others
° Emissions from livestock and manure
management
° N O emissions from managed soils and CO
2
2
emissions from lime and urea application
° Harvested wood products
Waste ° Solid waste disposal
° Biological treatment of solid waste
° Incineration and open burning of waste
° Wastewater treatment and discharge
Source. (1) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2006), Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (2) Dodman (2009) (3) Sahni and Aulakh (2014).
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