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Reference
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550 ppm
30
25
20
2005
2010
2015
2020
2025
2030
Year
projection for emissions and the world emissions versus time
allowed in their model if the atmosphere is eventually to be
stabilized at
fig. 17.2
IEA emission scenarios. IEA
business-as-usual
ppm. (Adapted from © OECD/IEA,
World Energy Outlook
,p.
, Fig.
.
)
ppm of CO .By
the reduction required is about
gigatonnes (Gt) of CO below the reference. This is not
going to happen without some degree of participation by all the
nations of the world.
The IEA estimates that in
in the reference case
the OECD members (mostly what I have called the
industrialized countries) would emit about
Gt of CO
while the rest of the world emits
Gt. To achieve the
The
member countries of OECD are: Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico,
the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak
Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom,
United States.
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