Reduce, reuse and renew: one possible approach to cut carbon emissions

Thomas E. Hoff, John P. Weyant, Chris Herig, Howard J. Wenger

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2001, vol. 15, issue 1/2, 73-83

Abstract: Global climate change has become an increasingly important issue over the last several years. This issue reached a climax at the Kyoto Conference in December, 1997 where the US agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 7% under its 1990 levels by 2010. This paper describes how distributed resources could be part of an overall solution towards achieving these reductions. It illustrates how a system composed of energy efficiency, distributed cogeneration, and distributed photovoltaics could reduce fuel consumption by 70% in the residential and commercial sectors. This could be a solution that makes economic sense independent of the climate change debate if implemented over the next 30 to 50 years, a timeframe which is not much worse for the climate system than achieving them in ten years, according to most analyses.

Keywords: climate change; distributed generation; photovoltaics; efficiency; cogeneration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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