Publication Date:
2012-05-17
Description:
Introduction Due to the global nature of climate change, greenhouse gas mitigation tends to focus on national and international level policies. However, moving from macro-level planning to implementation will require understanding local scale environmental, social and economic dynamics in order to implement beneficial mitigation projects. There has been an increasing amount of literature on both methodologies and weaknesses for carbon accounting for various projects (Ekins et al., 2011; Pearson, 2007; Searchinger et al. , 2008). In this paper we focus on one particular tool for carbon mitigation analysis and planning, the carbon abatement cost curve, which can help guide policy decisions related to cost effective carbon mitigation. To date, these tools have been primarily used for national or international (i.e. macro-) level planning. We seek to explore the nuances of constructing these curves at the local, or micro-level, highlighting the case of isolated electric systems that are ...
Print ISSN:
1993-3800
Electronic ISSN:
1993-3819
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
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