A high-resolution, spatially explicit estimate of fossil-fuel CO2 emissions from the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan Richao Cong (
[email protected] ) National Institute for Environmental Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-6147 Makoto Saito National Institute for Environmental Studies Tetsuo Fukui Institute of Behavioral Sciences Ryuichi Hirata National Institute for Environmental Studies Akihiko Ito National Institute for Environmental Studies Methodology Keywords: Carbon dioxide, CO2 emission inventory, Fossil fuel, GIS, High-resolution map, Tokyo emissions Posted Date: January 7th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-17565/v4 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License 1 A high-resolution, spatially explicit estimate of fossil-fuel CO2 2 emissions from the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan 3 Richao Cong1,2*, Makoto Saito1*, Tetsuo Fukui3, Ryuichi Hirata1 and Akihiko Ito1 4 1 Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 5 Tsukuba, Japan 6 2 Fukushima Branch, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tamura District, Japan 7 3 Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Tokyo, Japan 8 *Correspondence: 9
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[email protected] 1 10 Abstract 11 Background: The quantification of urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is an important 12 task in combating climate change. Emission inventories that include spatially explicit 13 emission estimates facilitate the accurate tracking of emission changes, identification of 14 emission sources, and formulation of policies for climate-change mitigation. Many currently 15 available gridded emission estimates are based on the disaggregation of country- or state- 16 wide emission estimates, which may be useful in describing city-wide emissions but are of 17 limited value in tracking changes at subnational levels.