ASSESSMENT OF CARBON(IV) OXIDE EMISSION AND MANAGEMENT OF SELECTED INDUSTRIES IN AGBARA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><p><strong>1.1</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Background</strong>&nbsp;<strong>to</strong>&nbsp;<strong>the</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Study</strong></p><p>Warming of the climate system is an undisputable fact of the 21st century (Intergovernmental</p><p>Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, 2001). This average increase in global temperature is</p><p>unequivocal, as it is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean</p><p>temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level (IPCC,</p><p>2007). Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than</p><p>any preceding decades since 1850, and the period from 1983 to 2012 was likely the warmest 30-</p><p>year period of the last 1400 years in the Northern Hemisphere (IPCC, 2014). The globally</p><p>averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a linear trend show</p><p>a warming of 0.85 (0.65 to 1.06) °C over the period 1880 to 2012 (IPCC, 2014).</p><p>This observed increase in global average temperatures and the associated climate change has</p><p>been attributed with a very high level of confidence and strong scientific consensus to the</p><p>increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) concentrations which is largely due to fossil</p><p>fuel combustion and to a smaller extent due to changes in land use and deforestation (United</p><p>Nations, 2013). These gases have been proven to be capable of absorbing infrared radiation as it</p><p>is reflected from the earth’s surface, therefore acting like a blanket, trapping heat, and keeping</p><p>the earth warm, a process known as the greenhouse effect (World Resource Institute, WRI,</p><p>2006).The Kyoto protocol identified six of these gases that affect the energy balance of the</p><p>global atmosphere and needs to be urgently addressed, they include, carbon dioxide (CO2) the</p><p>most prevalent, followed by methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2</p> <br><p></p>