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|a Rethinking wedges |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a [S.l.] : |b Institute of Physics Publishing, |c 2013. |
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|a Environmental Research Letters Volume 8. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Stabilizing CO2 emissions at current levels for fifty years is not consistent with either an
atmospheric CO2 concentration below 500 ppm or global temperature increases below
2 [degrees]C. Accepting these targets, solving the climate problem requires that emissions peak
and decline in the next few decades, and ultimately fall to near zero. Phasing out
emissions over 50 years could be achieved by deploying on the order of 19 ‘wedges’, each
of which ramps up linearly over a period of 50 years to ultimately avoid 1 GtC y1 of
CO2 emissions. But this level of mitigation will require affordable carbon-free energy
systems to be deployed at the scale of tens of terawatts. Any hope for such fundamental
and disruptive transformation of the global energy system depends upon coordinated
efforts to innovate, plan, and deploy new transportation and energy systems that can
provide affordable energy at this scale without emitting CO2 to the atmosphere. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a emission reduction,greenhouse gas. |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI15061003/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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