HR: 14:00h
AN: GC23A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Veracruz State Preliminary Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory
AU: * Welsh Rodriguez, C
EM: cwelsh@uv.mx
AF: Centro de Ciencias de la Tierra, UV., Francisco J. Moreno 207 Col. E. Zapata, Xalapa, VER 91090, Mexico
AU: Rodriquez Viqueira, L
EM: lrv@pumas.ii.unam.mx
AF: Instituto de Ingenieria, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico, DF 94510, Mexico
AU: Guzman Rojas, S
AF: Centro de Ciencias de la Tierra, UV., Francisco J. Moreno 207 Col. E. Zapata, Xalapa, VER 91090, Mexico
AB: At recent years, the international organisms such as United Nations, has discussed that the temperature has increased slightly and the pattern of precipitations has changed in different parts of the world, which cause either extreme droughts or floods and that the extreme events have increased. These are some of the risks of global climate change because of the increase of gas concentration in the atmosphere – such as carbon dioxides, nitrogen oxides and methane - which increase the greenhouse effect. Facing the consequences that could emerge because of the global temperature grown, there is a genuine necessity in different sectors of reduction the greenhouse gases and reduced the adverse impacts of climate change. To solve that, many worldwide conventions have been realized (Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto, Montreal) where different countries have established political compromises to stabilize their emissions of greenhouse gases. The mitigation and adaptation policies merge as a response to the effects that the global climate change could have, on the humans as well as the environment. That is the reason to provide the analysis of the areas and geographic zones of the country that present major vulnerability to the climate change. The development of an inventory of emissions that identifies and quantifies the principal sources of greenhouse gases of a country, and also of a region is basic to any study about climate change, also to develop specific political programs that allow to preserve and even improve a quality of the atmospheric environment, and maybe to incorporate to international mechanisms such as the emissions market. To estimate emissions in a systematic and consistent way on a regional, national and international level is a requirement to evaluate the feasibility and the cost-benefit of instrumented possible mitigation strategies and to adopt politics and technologies to reduce emissions. Mexico has two national inventories of emissions, 1990 and 1995, now it is on the press the year 2000, both published by the National Institute of Ecology of the SEMARNAT. There is not an emissions inventory of Veracruz, the few measurements campaigns that have been done in urban centers, it has not been possible to have access data, neither it has been designed a public politic that suggests the necessity of counting on information on the matter. In spite of it, because of the geographic conditions of Veracruz, the potential impact will transform Veracruz in a short period of time, that’s why the Veracruz University must leadership studies around it, where the social distribution of the obtained results will make possible the creation of politics, strategies directed to a sustainable development, economically viable, socially fair and environmentally respectful.
DE: 0345 Pollution: urban and regional (0305, 0478, 4251)
DE: 1630 Impacts of global change (1225)
SC: Global Climate Change [GC]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly