Abstract:

With the impact of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and climate change have been on the world's agenda for a long time. With the protocols signed for global climate protection, including the Paris Agreement (COP21, 2015) within the scope of Kyoto (1997) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, it is aimed to create greenhouse gas emission inventories and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the member countries. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O) originating from the highway transportation of Nevşehir Province in the beginning period of the Covid-19 epidemic (March-October 2020). Emissions are calculated using the Tier 1 calculation methodology included in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) manual and recommended for countries in the calculation, fuel consumption amounts between the years 2015-2020 (March-October period) in Nevşehir Province were used. The results were found in terms of CO2 equivalent used in the carbon footprint calculation, taking into account the gases formed as a result of the burning of gasoline, diesel and LPG fuels. The equivalent amount of CO2 is 255.5 Gg in 2015, 318.2 Gg in 2016, 453.6 Gg in 2017, 572.5 Gg in 2018, 346.5 Gg in 2019, and 377.0 Gg in 2020. As in the whole country, due to the reduced human mobility in Nevşehir city-wide as a result of the Covid-19 measures, it was observed that the equivalent CO2 emission was lower than the average of the March-October period of previous years in the March-October period of 2020.

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