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Energy technology modelling of major carbon abatement options.
- Source :
- International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control; Mar2010, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p309-315, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Abstract: The International Energy Agency Energy Technologies Perspectives (ETP) model is used to assess the prospects for carbon abatement options, including carbon capture and storage, up to 2050. Three main scenarios are considered: a Baseline scenario with current energy policies, an accelerated technology scenario that seeks to return energy-related CO<subscript>2</subscript> emissions in 2050 to their level in 2005, and a scenario for which CO<subscript>2</subscript> emissions are reduced at 50% of current levels by 2050. To reach these emissions reduction targets, annual global CO<subscript>2</subscript> emissions in the year 2050 must be reduced by 35 GtCO<subscript>2</subscript> to 48 GtCO<subscript>2</subscript> compared to the Baseline scenario. The analysis presented here shows that a broad portfolio of emissions reducing technologies will need to be deployed across all economic sectors of the global economy to reach these targets. Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is one of the suite of technologies employed across the globe to reach these targets. CCS adoption occurs in many aspects of the global economy and accounts for 14–19% of all emissions reductions. The total amount of CO<subscript>2</subscript> captured and stored in deep geologic reservoirs up to 2050 ranges between 5.1 GtCO<subscript>2</subscript> and 10.4 GtCO<subscript>2</subscript> in these two climate policy scenarios. Up to 2030, more than half of total CCS deployment takes place in OECD countries. After 2035, emerging economies account for more than half of total CCS use. This paper also demonstrates that as the climate policy becomes more stringent it will be necessary for CCS to deploy more extensively in many different industries outside of the electric power sector which often receives the most attention in discussions of CCS''s role in addressing climate change. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17505836
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 48379126
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2009.10.002