Greenhouse Gas Assessment and Compensation on Brazilian Low Volume Rural Roads Using CarbonROAD—The Santa Rosa de Lima Case

Environments

Reus Salini¹  Carl Anders Lenngren²  Lauro Bassi³  Dalcio Pickler Baesso⁴ 

[1] Neogennium Technologies, Rua Adhemar da Silva, 826, Florianópolis, SC 88101-090, Brazil;Department of Traffic and Roads, Lund University, Box 118, Lund 221 00, Sweden; E-Mail:;Environmental Consultant, Rua Saldanha da Gama, 225, Canoas, RS 92310-630, Brazil; E-Mail:;Santa Catarina State Department of Transportation, Rua Tenente Silveira, 162, Florianópolis 88010-300, Brazil; E-Mail:

关键词: carbon emission;    rural roads;    compensation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/environments2040489

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The “Santa Catarina Rural” is a Program co-funded by The World Bank for improvements on 1300 km of low volume rural roads on Southern Brazil. The pioneer project under the program was on the municipality of Santa Rosa de Lima, where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the road improvement activities as well as the regular traffic were assessed on an experimental basis using the CarbonROAD software application. Here, we show details of the CarbonROAD software application and the construction emissions assessment procedure as well as the mitigating effect of the plants used for compensation. It was found that most of the emissions come from the road improvement work. This includes earthworks, fuel for motor graders, bulldozers and other machines, and materials and gravel extraction, industrialization and transportation, etc. Only a smaller portion comprises regular road traffic. The accumulated emission balance shows that the carbon absorption is larger than construction emissions after just 15 months. The potential for price appraisal of the generated carbon credits is explored.

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