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generation. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has yet to become a commercially viable technology with little prospect … wind and solar as a non-emitting alternative to replace a nuclear phase-out or failure to deploy CCS technology is … penetration of renewables regardless of alternative generation technologies available, but especially if nuclear or CCS are absent …
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Among technological options to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Carbon Capture and Storage technology (CCS … literature, based on one-sector models in which all emissions are capturable, finds that CCS technology should not be used before … sectors, this result does not always hold. CCS technology should be used before the ceiling is reached if non capturable …
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This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....
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The paper examines the Bush Administration's climate mitigation proposal.The Bush Administration'swait-and-see policy reflects some fundamental aspects of the U.S. governance of its economy, such as the pressure of specific interest groups, the unilateralism of the country, the reluctance to...
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This study estimates the human cost of failures in the CCS industry in 2050, using the actuarial approach. The range of … expected fatalities is assessed integrating all steps of the CCS chain: additional coal production, coal transportation, carbon …
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This case study describes the social aspects of Total's CO2 integrated capture, transport and storage pilot project in Frontsouthwestern France, from the initial press conference February 8th, 2007 to the announce of its end in 2013. The economic and social context was favorable. The company...
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Vietnam is used way below its full potential. In spite of efforts to further CDM projects in the recent years, Vietnam still lags behind the comparable neighboring countries in term of registered CDM projects. Especially, though 2008 and 2009 have seen a...
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In this research, we provide an overview of the climate-security nexus in the European energy sector, through a model based analysis of scenarios produced with the POLES model. The scenarios describe the consequences of different degrees of GHG emission constraint, at world level, but also for a...
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In addition to the already present Climate and Energy package, the European Union (EU) plans to include a binding target to reduce energy consumption. We analyze the rationales the EU invokes to justify such an overlapping and develop a minimal common framework to study interactions arising from...
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Pour évaluer les politiques climatiques dans un cadre coût-efficacité sous contraintes d'évolution du climat (amplitude du réchauffement et son rythme), nous avons développé RESPONSE_ ?, un modèle intégré de contrôle optimal. Nos résultats montrent que l'incertitude sur la...
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