Global emissions abatement by technology and region in the 66 % 2 °C Scenario relative to the New Policies Scenario.
Not exact matches
The evidence already indicates that too much warming is already built into the
global biosphere in order to expect that
emissions abatement would avert a
global warming crisis.
We present the first
global analysis of the costs of abating the estimated 76 million tonnes of methane emitted worldwide each year in oil and gas operations, which suggest that 40 - 50 % of these
emissions can be mitigated at no net cost, because the value of the captured methane could cover the
abatement measures.
Carbon dioxide data from Pieter Tans, «Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide — Mauna Loa,» NOAA / ESRL, at www.cmdl.noaa.gov, viewed 16 October 2007, with historical estimate in data from Seth Dunn, «Carbon
Emissions Dip,» in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 1999 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999), pp. 60 — 61; fossil fuel emissions calculated from International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), p. 493; deforestation emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007
Emissions Dip,» in Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 1999 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999), pp. 60 — 61; fossil fuel
emissions calculated from International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), p. 493; deforestation emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007
emissions calculated from International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2006 (Paris: 2006), p. 493; deforestation
emissions from Vattenfall, Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007
emissions from Vattenfall,
Global Mapping of Greenhouse Gas
Abatement Opportunities up to 2030: Forestry Sector Deep - Dive (Stockholm: June 2007), p. 27.
The SkyShares model enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a
global emissions ceiling; to allocate this
emissions budget across countries using different policy rules; and then uses estimated marginal
abatement costs to calculate the costs faced by each country of decarbonising to meet its
emissions budget, with the costs for each country depending in part on whether and how much carbon trading is allowed.
It should not, therefore, be surprising that formal efforts to weigh the near - term costs of
emissions abatement against the long - term benefits from avoided
global warming show few net benefits, even in theory.
Costs and benefits of the proposed mitigation policy compared with no mitigation policy Item; Units; Optimal Carbon Price; Low - cost backstop; Table Benefits (Reduced damages); 2006 US $ trillion; 5.23; 17.63; 5 - 3
Abatement Cost; 2007 US $ trillion; 2.16; 0.44; 5 - 3 Net Benefit of policy; 2005 US $ trillion; 3.37; 17.19; 5 - 1 Implied CO2 Tax; 2005 US $ / ton C; 202.4; 4.1; 5 - 1 CO2
emissions in 2100; Gt C / a; 11; 0; 5 - 6 CO2 concentration in 2100; ppm CO2; 586; 340; 5 - 7
Global temperature change in 2100; °C from 1900; 2.61; 0.9; 5 - 1
Item Optimal Carbon Price Low - cost backstop Benefits (Reduced damages) 5.23 17.63
Abatement Cost 2.16 0.44 Net Benefit of policy 3.37 17.19 Implied CO2 Tax 202.4 4.1 CO2
emissions in 2100 (Gt C / a) 11 0 CO2 concentration in 2100 (ppm CO2) 586 340
Global temperature change in 2100 (°C from 1900) 2.61 0.9
This example brings us all the way back to the start of my essay, and the central problem for advocates of aggressive
emissions abatement advocates: despite the rhetoric, the projected damages from
global warming just don't appear to justify the costs of the proposed remedy.
Discounted
global abatement costs are anything from about 30 to 400 percent higher than under globally efficient pricing in most cases, and near - and medium - term
emissions prices can be ten times larger with China's accession delayed until 2035.
Compared with the globally efficient policy (with a globally harmonized
emissions price at all times), near - term
emissions prices in developed countries rise from between a few percent and 100 percent under the different scenarios, and discounted
global abatement costs are higher by about 10 to 70 percent.
But the results do provide some flavor for the proportionate increase in
global abatement costs, and in required U.S.
emissions pricing, due to delayed developing country participation.
The
Global Methane Initiative (GMI) is a voluntary, multilateral partnership that aims to reduce global methane emissions and to advance the abatement, recovery, and use of methane as a valuable clean energy s
Global Methane Initiative (GMI) is a voluntary, multilateral partnership that aims to reduce
global methane emissions and to advance the abatement, recovery, and use of methane as a valuable clean energy s
global methane
emissions and to advance the
abatement, recovery, and use of methane as a valuable clean energy source.
IEA publications — including their regular and widely read World Energy Outlook and Energy Technologies Perspective — have long emphasized the leading role that energy efficiency can play in reducing
global carbon
emissions, contributing «about 40 % of the CO2
abatement needed by 2050» according to the new report.
Ellerman, A.D. and A. Decaux (1998), Analysis of Post-Kyoto CO2
Emissions Trading Using Marginal
Abatement Curves, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of
Global Change, Report No. 40, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Using a
global model based on the marginal
abatement costs of 12 countries and regions, this paper estimates the contributions of the three Kyoto flexibility mechanisms to meet the total greenhouse gas
emissions reductions required of Annex 1 countries under the three trading scenarios respectively.
Center for American ProgressWith other smaller changes in
global emissions projections — including a decrease due to the recent economic downturn and reduced
emissions from deforestation and loss of peat lands — the high - end
abatement path so far from the Copenhagen Accord commitments leaves us only 5 gigatons short of the 44 gigaton goal by 2020 — two - thirds of the reductions needed to achieve climate safety (Figure 3).
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