The study uses the carbon dioxide emission calculation model published by IPCC to measure carbon dioxide emissions and fuel inputs of the three types of multimodal transport (road-sea, railway-sea, and river-sea) in ports of China. Then, we make a case study on Shanghai port. Combined with carbon taxes launched around 2012 in China, this paper calculates the carbon taxes on the three types of m…
Global warming is getting more and more attention. The whole society focuses on the low carbon and many experts do low carbon studies on industries. However, little research on low-carbon ports. According to the data from United Nations, since 1990, the emission of greenhouse gas from global trading vessels has increased by 85% and the emission of greenhouse gas from the shipping activities eac…