| Abstract [eng] |
Climate change is considered as one of the most important problems in the whole world, EU and separate countries. The challenges of climate change can be overcome in two ways – decreasing the demand and increasing the part of the energy that is created by new and renewable energy recourses. According to the previous researches, there is a great energy saving potential in the households. This means that more efficient energy consumption would lead to better implementation of climate change requirements as well as smaller households’ energy bills and thus improvement of daily life of every person. The object of the paper – Climate change mitigation measures in households. The purpose of the paper – To assess climate change mitigation measures in Lithuanian households. Objectives of the paper:  To give the overview of implementation of climate change mitigation policies in the international aspect.  To determine the influence of households in implementing climate change mitigation policy.  To provide the comparative analysis of GHG emissions and energy consumption in Lithuanian households.  To analyze the measures for mitigating GHG emissions in Lithuania and to compare it with other measures used in different countries.  To estimate the possibilities of mitigating GHG emissions in Lithuanian households while changing their behavior and saving more energy. After conducting the analysis of energy consumption, GHG emissions pattern and climate mitigation policy in Lithuania, it was shown that Lithuanian households consume relatively big part of energy as well as emits GHG. According to the results of the empirical research, the saving potential in Lithuanian households is 16,6% (which is equal to 1.95MtCO2/year). In comparison to saving potential and measures used for encouraging households to save in other countries, climate change mitigation policies used for Lithuanian households are not sufficient for exploiting all GHG mitigation potential. The work consists of an introduction, 3 parts, conclusions and recommendations. The main working materials described on 80 pages, including 31 tables, 21 illustrations. |
