The objective of this study was to collect and evaluate the fleet of passenger cars in Brazil, with twenty or more years of use, gasoline-powered, as well as quantifying their emissions of carbon dioxide. The intention was to evaluate the investment required to remove these vehicles from circulation, comparing it with the avoided emissions and the market value of these emissions.The results found the fossil CO2 emissions avoided, with the removal of such vehicles are approximately seven million two hundred thousand carbon credits.
Global warming; Greenhouse effect; Carbon dioxide; Avoided emissions; Carbon credits
