Elsevier

Energy

Volume 18, Issue 5, May 1993, Page 401
Energy

Abstract
Long-term strategies for mitigating global warming

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Abstract

This special issue reviews technological options for mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The options analyzed include efficiency improvements, renewable energies, clean fossil and zero-carbon energy technologies, carbon sequestration and disposal, enhancement of natural carbon sinks (halting deforestation, afforestation, and other sink enhancement options), and geo-engineering measures to compensate for increases in CO2 concentrations. Reduction potentials, costs, and the relative contribution of individual options, as well as their limiting factors and possible timing of introduction and diffusion, are discussed. The study concludes with a discussion of methodological issues and of trade-offs and constraints for implementation strategies to mitigate anthropogenic sources of change in the global carbon cycle.

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The research reported in this special issue was carried out by the Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies (ECS) Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Support by the Global Industrial and Social Research Institute (GISPRI), Japan, and the Japan Industrial Policy Research Institute (JIPRI) for part of the research reported here is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks go to Lourdes Cornclio, Val Jones, Lilo Roggenland, and Ewa Delpos for their help in the preparation of the manuscript.

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