Comparison and interactions between the long-term pursuit of energy independence and climate policies
| Autor: | Keywan Riahi, David L. McCollum, Volker Krey, Giacomo Marangoni, Jessica Jewell, Aleh Cherp, Mathijs Harmsen, Nico Bauer, Bob van der Zwaan, Massimo Tavoni, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Tino Aboumahboub, Tom Kober, Vadim Vinichenko, Oliver Fricko |
|---|---|
| Přispěvatelé: | Sustainable Chemistry Energy (HIMS, FNWI), HIMS Other Research (FNWI), Sustainable Chemistry |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment Natural resource economics Political economy of climate change 020209 energy Global warming Energy Engineering and Power Technology Climate change 02 engineering and technology Energy security 7. Clean energy Energy policy Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Fuel Technology Climate change mitigation 13. Climate action Environmental protection Energy independence Greenhouse gas 11. Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics |
| Zdroj: | Nature Energy, 1(6):16073. Springer Nature |
| ISSN: | 2058-7546 |
| Popis: | Ensuring energy security and mitigating climate change are key energy policy priorities. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III report emphasized that climate policies can deliver energy security as a co-benefit, in large part through reducing energy imports. Using five state-of-the-art global energy-economy models and eight long-term scenarios, we show that although deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would reduce energy imports, the reverse is not true: ambitious policies constraining energy imports would have an insignificant impact on climate change. Restricting imports of all fuels would lower twenty-first-century emissions by only 2–15% against the Baseline scenario as compared with a 70% reduction in a 450 stabilization scenario. Restricting only oil imports would have virtually no impact on emissions. The modelled energy independence targets could be achieved at policy costs comparable to those of existing climate pledges but a fraction of the cost of limiting global warming to 2 ∘C. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|