Counting the Carbons

Zusatztext

Climate change is the most pressing global environmental issue today, with a potentially devastating impact on human development. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has established consensus that climate change is clearly linked to human activity. Qatar is addressing the climate change phenomena through the environmental pillar of Qatar National Vision 2030. However, Qatars carbon footprint takes into account Qatars energy production rather than the countrys domestic consumption. Qatar is unfairly portrayed as the highest carbon dioxide emitter in the world in terms of per capita measures. The main argument of the research is to discuss Qatars CO2 emissions per capita compared to other reporting measures, and to examine the difference between using a consumption based CO2 emissions accounting system versus a production-based one for Qatar. This paper presents an understanding of Qatars per capita reporting measure and Qatars global image in terms of other reporting measures. In addition, the paper discusses the complications of using a production-based accounting versus a consumption-based accounting system for Qatar Carbon Dioxide emissions calculations.

Autorenportrait

Nadya AL-Awainati &Mona AL-Asmakh hold an Executive Masters in Energy & Resources from Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Both are working as engineers in the energy sector and they have several publications in the field of technology and engineering.

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