A Makeshift Approach to Carbon Accounting in Egyptian Towns

This paper proposes a makeshift approach to carbon accounting in Egyptian towns, which takes into account the limited resources of local municipalities and the widespread lack of available data. Egypt is highly vulnerable to climate change. Escalating temperatures, water scarcity, and rising sea levels threaten all parts of society. Cities absorb a growing portion of the increasing population and are especially exposed to the precarious effects of global warming. Consequently, there is an emergent need for mitigation and adaptation measures in urban areas, which presuppose an adequate accounting of the local greenhouse gas emissions. This paper suggest a series of six steps that can be followed by municipal decision makers to estimate their emissions by collecting existing information on site and utilizing systematic approximations to make up for missing statistics.