Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6330989 | Science of The Total Environment | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Results show that black carbon emissions are in interval 53-473Â Gg using the fuel consumption approach and between 62 and 89 using the sector method. Black carbon key sources come from biomass burning in the rural sector, with 47 percent share to the National total. Mobile sources emissions account to 16% to the total. An opportunity to reduce, in the short-term, carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) emissions by reducing black carbon emissions would be obtained in reducing emissions mainly from biomass burning in rural housing sector and diesel emissions in the transport sector with important co-benefits in direct radiative forcing, public health and air quality.
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Authors
Xochitl Cruz-Núñez,