Climate crisis forces politicians to develop solution helping reduce global warming as much as possible. To do so, lately different tools have been developed such as the carbon map. Canada Research Chair on Measuring the Impact of Human Activities on Climate Change decided to offer a visual tool recording greenhouse gas emissions on Montreal’s Island, at high spatial and temporal resolution. Various emission sources are considered, including those studied here: industry, waste and fugitive emissions due to natural gas distribution.
Those emissions will be calculated following the methods recommended by the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC). The results will then be presented on a map, where the emissions will be by territory. Calculations are made thanks to different data sources such as: open data from the city of Montreal for the waste, consumption data supplied by Énergir and Hydro-Québec, both partner on this project.
Each sector has its own emissions; therefore, it is difficult to determine where it will be important to act on globally. However, in 2021, the three sectors studied here totaled 4,421,098 teq CO2, which represents 43% of the emissions calculated by the city of Montreal that year. Therefore, it is important to act on those sectors, but to do so it is necessary to understand where on how to act on a smaller scale, which is made possible by the carbon map which divides emissions by territory on the island.
| Date | 11 Apr 2025 |
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| Original language | French |
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| Awarding Institution | - École de technologie supérieure
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| Supervisor | Annie Levasseur (Supervisor) |
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Hubener, M.-L. (Author),
Levasseur (Supervisor),
11 Apr 2025Student thesis: Master's thesis › Master in Engineering: Environmental Engineering