Open AccessLow carbon global economy: scenarios of sustainable development, power consumption and greenhouse gas emission control
Author(s) -
Татьяна Владимировна Майорова,
Ирина Белик,
Olga Ponomareva,
Lyudmila G. Kolyada
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/315/5/052061
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , renewable energy , environmental science , low carbon economy , energy consumption , sustainable development , emission intensity , electricity generation , power (physics) , environmental economics , natural resource economics , engineering , economics , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , electrical engineering , biology , excitation , political science , law
This paper is devoted to problems of a gradual transfer to renewable energy sources and decarbonization of power systems. It presents the analysis of the structure and the trend in global power consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and target values of decreased emissions by the largest greenhouse gas emitters. A trend in renewable energy sources in total global power consumption is analyzed. The authors study a potential for carbon capture and storage as an instrument of CO 2 emission neutralization in power and industrial processes. The paper contains indicators to evaluate efficiency of power resource utilization and greenhouse gas emission control.