CO2 emissions from road transport and selected parts in the Košice city

Abstract

In present, climatic changes are the most important and urgent world-wide problems. They are a real and uprising threat for our environment. An intensive climatic research and monitoring yielded a better knowledge about the reasons and effects of global warming. Global warming in range of 1,4 to 5,8 °C affects weather, year seasons, ecosystems, water sources, health of citizens, as well as global and domestic economy. Nowadays, it is clear that the climatic unstability is mostly caused by human activities. 21 % of total CO2 emissions in Europe comes from traffic, which is one of the biggest source of greenhouse effect gases and rises up to 2,5 % every year. A main reason is the increasing automobile and airplane transport

Keywords

• urban traffic
• MEET
• air pollution
• nitrogen oxides