| Abstract: | Reducing the carbon emissions from the automobile industry is crucial for China''s transport sector. Therefore it is urgent to develop a carbon emission accounting system to properly lead the green development of the automobile industry and to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals for coping with climate change. Firstly the scopes and applications of carbon emission accounting in the automobile industry were summarized from the corporate/organization level, product level, and project/service level by reviewing the research progress of carbon emission accounting at home and abroad. Then the carbon accounting methodology for China''s automobile industry was proposed from the life cycle perspective.
Meanwhile the key points in accounting, such as accounting boundaries, data collection, data quality assessment and inventory analysis, were emphasized. Finally the paper provides suggestions for establishing a carbon accounting standard, constructing the underlying database, and improving the low-carbon product labeling system. The establishment and improvement of the carbon accounting are beneficial to understanding the carbon emissions of automobile enterprises, identifying the critical process of emissions,making the coordinated effects to reduce emissions from the whole upstream and downstream automotive industry chain, and promoting the low-carbon and sustainable development of China''s automobile, transport and energy industries |
