At the request of Changning District government, the Bank team supported a Shanghai energy conservation institution, assisted by an international firm, in conducting a comprehensive survey of buildings in Hongqiao area in the Changning District, and in developing CO2
abatement cost curves to identify the abatement potential, cost, and ease of implementation of various mitigation measures.
xvi — xvii, 69 — 80; McKinsey & Company, Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy: Version 2 of the Global Greenhouse Gas
Abatement Cost Curve (London: 2009).
The Department of Commerce, in consultation with the Washington State University (WSU) Extension Energy Program, will analyze carbon reduction opportunities which may include a marginal
abatement cost curve providing guidance on the cost to reduce emissions in various sectors with various technologies.
Not exact matches
The GHG
abatement curve prepared by the consultancy McKinsey, above, shows that
cost - effective CDR technologies (highlighted in orange) can help reduce the overall
cost of decarbonization.
Of note is that McKinsey only considered GHG
abatement options that they expected would
cost less than 80 Euros / tCO2 in 2030, whereas the full CDR supply
curve includes a number of approaches well above that threshold.
During the previous twenty years, pollution
abatement costs had continually increased, as stricter standards moved the private sector up the marginal
abatement -
cost curve.