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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.creator | Reilly, John M. | - |
| dc.creator | Sarofim, Marcus C. | - |
| dc.creator | Paltsev, Sergey. | - |
| dc.creator | Prinn, Ronald G. | - |
| dc.date | 2004-09-20T21:30:41Z | - |
| dc.date | 2004-09-20T21:30:41Z | - |
| dc.date | 2004-08 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-09T02:39:56Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2013-10-09T02:39:56Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-10-09 | - |
| dc.identifier | http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a114 | - |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5543 | - |
| dc.identifier | Report no. 114 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721 | - |
| dc.description | First steps toward a broad climate agreement, such as the Kyoto Protocol, have focused attention on agreement with less than global geographic coverage. We consider instead a policy that is less comprehensive in term of greenhouse gases (GHGs), including only the non-CO2 GHGs, but is geographically comprehensive. Abating non-CO2 GHGs may be seen as less of a threat to economic development and therefore it may be possible to involve developing countries in such a policy who have thus far resisted limits on CO2 emissions. The policy we consider involves a GHG price of about $15 per ton carbon-equivalent (tce) levied only on the non-CO2 GHGs and held at that level through the century. We estimate that such a policy would reduce the global mean surface temperature in 2100 by about 0.57 degrees C; application of this policy to methane alone would achieve a reduction of 0.3 to 0.4 degrees C. We estimate the Kyoto Protocol in its current form would achieve a 0.30 degrees C reduction in 2100 if all Annex B Parties except the US maintained it as is through the century. Furthermore, we estimate the costs of the non-CO2 policies to be a small fraction of the Kyoto restriction. Whether as a next step to expand the Kyoto Protocol, or as a separate initiative running parallel to it, the world could make substantial progress on limiting climate change by pursuing an agreement to abate the non-CO2 GHGs. The results suggest that it would be useful to proceed on global abatement of non-CO2 GHGs so that lack of progress on negotiations to limit CO2 does not allow these abatement opportunities to slip away. | - |
| dc.description | Abstract in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/). | - |
| dc.format | 236424 bytes | - |
| dc.format | application/pdf | - |
| dc.language | en_US | - |
| dc.publisher | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change | - |
| dc.relation | ;Report no. 114 | - |
| dc.title | The Role of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases in Climate Policy: Analysis Using the MIT IGSM | - |
| Appears in Collections: | MIT Items | |
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