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70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
Developing
30,000
20,000
Reforming
Industrialized
10,000
0
1990
2010
2030
2050
2070
2100
Year
IIASA projection of future primary energy in their
high growth scenario. IIASA projections show that energy demand
in the twenty-
fig. 17.1
rst century is dominated by the growth of the
developing nations. (Source: International Institute of Applied
Systems Analysis and World Energy Council Global Energy
Perspectives long-range projection; choose different assumptions
technologies would be developed that could be used in the
developing countries as well as by the industrialized
nations to meet their commitments.
The Protocol also has a mechanism to allow credit
toward an Annex B country
s goal to be gotten by redu-
cing emissions in a developing country. This is called the
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). There is a
requirement for something called
'
for a
project to get credit under the CDM. This means that
the project is something the developing country would
not have done anyway. There is a complicated formal
process for a project to get designated as a CDM project,
and as you can guess a cohort of consultants has sprung up
“
additionality
”
