Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine and Robert Socolow of Princeton University in the US report in the journal Environmental Research Letters that existing power plants will emit 300 billion
tonnes of additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during their lifetimes.
Not exact matches
SCC dollar values are sometimes characterized as representing the marginal damage
of an
additional tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.
The Summary for Policymakers states that taking into account
additional warming factors, the amount
of carbon that can be released through
carbon dioxide emissions — in total — comes down to about 800 billion
tonnes.
Even after doing so, South Korea would need to reduce its emissions by an
additional 100 million metric
tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.