{"title":"Kwi-Gon Kim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKwi-Gon Kim's main research interests are in the field of smart urban eco-development and climate change, also including aspects of convergence of human needs\/consumption and climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has obtained his Ph.D. in Planning Studies at University College London (UCL) and taught for 32 years at Seoul National University. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has been very active in various fields and a frequent speaker at international organizations, including UNDP, UNESCO, UNEP, UNFCCC and UN-HABITAT. He, as a President of the International Urban Training Center (IUTC) in partnership with UN-HABITAT, developed a series of volume of Climate Smart Eco-Cities as training materials. He has been a Co-Chair, UNFCCC\/UGIH Consumption\/Needs-based GHG Emission Accounting Working Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has been an author\/co-authors of five Springer books, including Low-Carbon Smart Cities (2018, Springer), Planning Climate Smart and Wise Cities (2022, Springer), and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Climate Change Adaptation (Forthcoming, Springer).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lca-and-consumptionneeds-based-ghg-accounting-for-climate-action-kwi-gon-kim-ebook","title":"LCA and Consumption\/Needs-Based GHG Accounting for Climate Action","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book reveals causes of the GHG emission accounting practice failure over the last several decades, describes evolution of new tenets of the accounting and remaining tasks, and suggests a new comprehensive integrated accounting in the form of protocol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report calls for net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 to limit warming to 1.5 degree C. As a result, many countries, cities, and industries are putting forward their greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction actions and commitments. But can the countries, cities, and industries meet these ambitious decarbonization goals without a reliable GHG inventory? This book tries to answer this question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt has been argued that there is a need to include LCA and consumption\/needs-based GHG emissions as a complimentary indicator to the current approach of production-based GHG accounting emissions. As a shifting of the focus of accounting system after the Paris Agreement, consumption\/needs-based approach is newly focused on a more broader accounting approach for NDCs and LDCs with a vision of all of society approach. Traditional national inventory approach to GHG emission accounting has been severely criticized as being too production process-oriented, sector-based approach, less transparent, a lack of public participation, no considerations for human needs and human factors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kwi-Gon Kim","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53652376191303,"sku":"9783031754685","price":181.89,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/files\/lca-and-consumptionneeds-based-ghg-accounting-for--ebook-cover.webp?v=1775358982"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/collections\/kwi-gon-kim-autor-kollektion.webp?v=1775358980","url":"https:\/\/www.cinebuch.de\/collections\/kwi-gon-kim.oembed","provider":"CineBuch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}