A gis-based study to estimate and analyse carbon dioxide emissions in Odunpazari District of Eskisehir

Global warming and climate change are two major environmental issues of these days, regarding the increasing amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere every year. Although it seems these problems have taken a critical place in the world public opinion and even though various studies on climate change has been carried out since, we still need to figure out how to gradually reduce the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This study aims to assess and analyze the carbon dioxide emissions in Odunpazarı district of Eskişehir. And this is a first and significant step to inventory and analyze carbon emissions at the city level. A GIS open source program was used to obtain several maps showing the outputs CO2 emissions according to the natural gas and electricity consumption of each neighborhood in 2016. For the analysis, the EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy related to the emission factors, scopes and tiers was taken into consideration. The results, regarding the applied calculation methods, was determined to be 1235785.81 ton of CO2 emissions for Odunpazarı district in 2016, with an average of 3.33 ton of CO2 per person in 2016 while this average was 2.36 ton of CO2 per person for the whole Eskişehir in 2012.