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Reduce, reuse and renew: one possible approach to cut carbon emissions

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  • Thomas E. Hoff, John P. Weyant, Chris Herig, Howard J. Wenger

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Global climate change has become an increasingly important issue over the last several years. This issue reached a climax at the Kyoto Conference in December, 1997 where the US agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 7% under its 1990 levels by 2010. This paper describes how distributed resources could be part of an overall solution towards achieving these reductions. It illustrates how a system composed of energy efficiency, distributed cogeneration, and distributed photovoltaics could reduce fuel consumption by 70% in the residential and commercial sectors. This could be a solution that makes economic sense independent of the climate change debate if implemented over the next 30 to 50 years, a timeframe which is not much worse for the climate system than achieving them in ten years, according to most analyses.

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  • Thomas E. Hoff, John P. Weyant, Chris Herig, Howard J. Wenger, 2001. "Reduce, reuse and renew: one possible approach to cut carbon emissions," International Journal of Global Energy Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(1/2), pages 73-83.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgeni:v:15:y:2001:i:1/2:p:73-83
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