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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
The 1,000 GtC Coal Question: Are Cases of High Future Coal Combustion Plausible? | |
Justin Ritchie; Hadi Dowlatabadi | |
发表日期 | 2016-11-03 |
出版年 | 2016 |
页码 | DP 16-45 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Global energy projections commonly assume, absent policy interventions, that coal will substitute for oil and gas after 2050. We consider evidence for a coal backstop energy supply and its continued use in the IPCC’s baseline greenhouse gas scenarios. |
结论 | |
摘要 | Twenty years ago, legacy reserve-to-production (R-P) ratios of 300 or more indicated a possibility of vastly expanding global coal consumption. Studies of energy futures commonly adopted similar R-P values as equilibrium conditions, establishing coal as a virtually unlimited backstop supply for long-term scenarios. Yearly consumption and market prices for hard coal have doubled since 1990, calibrating the next century’s baseline. Over the same two decades, improving knowledge of global coal reduced estimates of total reserves by two-thirds, while costs increased much faster than anticipated by long-range coal resource models with long and flat supply curves. Consequently, the underlying assumptions for many future global energy projections no longer hold. Past coal-dominant projections of future global energy supply now significantly exceed modern assessments of the reserves recoverable under baseline trends and need to be revised. The energy system reference cases used for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways in climate change research are a case in point: baseline emission scenarios commonly project levels of coal combustion many times higher than current reserve estimates by the year 2100. In this paper, we explain why baselines depicting vast expansion in twenty-first century coal consumption should not be used as a business-as-usual assumption. |
主题 | Climate Change ; Energy and Electricity |
URL | http://www.rff.org/research/publications/1000-gtc-coal-question-are-cases-high-future-coal-combustion-plausible |
来源智库 | Resources for the Future (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/41474 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Justin Ritchie,Hadi Dowlatabadi. The 1,000 GtC Coal Question: Are Cases of High Future Coal Combustion Plausible?. 2016. |
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