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This paper covers three policy-relevant aspects of the carbon content of electricity that are well established among … requires electricity to be almost carbon-free before the end of the century. As such, the question for policy makers is not … whether to decarbonize electricity but when to do it. Second, decarbonization of electricity is still possible and required if …
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At least ten Latin American and Caribbean countries have pledged to achieve carbon neutrality. Has electricity planning …
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As reporting GHG emissions becomes mandatory in the financial sector, the methods by which emissions are calculated will grow in importance for their impact on the resulting metric. Progress is underway in both the public and private financial sectors to embed emissions accounting standards, but...
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Over the coming decade, the power sector is expected to invest ~7.2 trillion USD in power plants and grids globally, much of it into CO2-emitting coal and gas plants. These assets typically have a long lifetime and commit large amounts of (future) CO2 emissions. Here, we analyze the historic...
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Improving end-use energy efficiency — that is, the energy-efficiency of individuals, households, and firms as they consume energy — is often cited as an important element in efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments for improving energy efficiency usually rely on the idea...
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We discuss climate change and resource scarcity from the perspective of macroeconomic modeling and quantitative evaluation. Our focus is on climate change: we build a very simple “integrated assessment model,” ie, a model that integrates the global economy and the climate in a unified...
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aggregate reductions in energy use, as commercial electricity use increases significantly. We find that climate change has a …
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In this paper we analyze the relative importance and mutual behavior of two competing base-load electricity generation … that until 2050 the resulting growth rates of nuclear electricity generation capacity become comparable to historical rates …
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electricity generation in Europe. Each European country alone would be better off if the mitigation policy was implemented …
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