Climate Change 2001: Mitigation: Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

by Edited by Bert Metz , Ogunlade Davidson , Rob Swart , Jiahua Pan

• ISBN13: 9780521015028
• ISBN10: 0521015022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Climate Change 2001: Mitigation is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific, technical and economic assessment of options to mitigate climate change and their costs. The report: · Makes clear there are strong inter-linkages between climate change policy and policies towards sustainable development. · Assesses information on technological options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or enhance their sinks. · Analyses technologies and practices available to achieve the targets of the Kyoto Protocol and stabilise atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. · Evaluates barriers impeding implementation of these options and methods available to overcome them. · Summarises the economic literature on costs of climate change mitigation at global, regional and national levels. · Evaluates the other benefits that climate policy can deliver or the climate benefits of other socio-economic policies. · Assesses how this information can be used to support climate policy decision making, acknowledging various decision-making frameworks. This latest IPCC assessment will again form the standard scientific reference for all concerned with climate change and who want to be informed of ways to address this important global problem: including students and researchers in environmental and social sciences, and policymakers and analysts in governmental and non-governmental organisations and the private sector world-wide.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Summary for Policymakers	1	(14)
Technical Summary	15
Setting the Stage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development	73
Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Scenarios and Implications	115
Technological and Economic Potential of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction	167
Technological and Economic Potential of Options to Enhance, Maintain, and Manage Biological Carbon Reservoirs and Geo-engineering	301
Barriers, Opportunities, and Market Potential of Technologies and Practices	345
Policies, Measures, and Instruments	399
Costing Methodologies	451
Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation	499
Sector Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation	561
Decision-making Frameworks	601
Appendices
I List of Authors and Reviewers	691
II Glossary	707
III Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Chemical Compounds	723
IV Units, Conversion Factors, and GDP Deflators	727
V List of Annex I, Annex II, and Annex B Countries	733
VI List of Major IPCC Reports	737
VII Index	741