Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 26
By Khalid Kazimov -- Trend:
Iran's greenhouse gas output will hit two billion metric tons per year in ten years if continued in the current fashion, Director of National Center for Air and Climate Change of the Iranian Environment Protection Organization Ali Rajabi said.
He said, according to a recent report, currently over 500 million metric tons of greenhouse gas equivalent of CO2 is produced in Iran each year, IRNA news agency reported August 26.
Greenhouse gasses, carbon in particular, have great impact on climate change and Iran has one of the most regrettable records in creating greenhouse gases. He said if the existing reformative plans are implemented, energy intensity in Iran would diminish by 50 percent, equal to five billion barrels of crude oil per year.
To reduce greenhouse gas emission, Iran has started producing and distributing gasoline with the Euro-4 standard, however with many ups-and-downs and much delay in projects.
Euro-4 gasoline is currently distributed in only a few big cities across the country and Iran needs much more of the product to cover domestic consumption.
Rajabi also noted that mazut has been replaced with natural gas in industrial units as part of attempts to reduce greenhouse gas production.
The Iranian Oil Ministry has started distributing 100 billion cubic meters of gas to power plants and other big industrial units, fully covering the country's need for energy in the industrial section and obviating the need to use mazut as fuel. Before the natural gas distribution started, mazut made up to 70 percent of the fuel used in some power plants.
Edited by CN