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The cost of CO{sub 2} reduction in Denmark - methodology and results

Abstract

The report contains phase two of the Danish contribution to the UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Study, which has the main purpose of developing a common methodology for undertaking a cost assessment of greenhouse gas abatement, and to carry out a number of country studies by using this methodology. The methodological possibilities for constructing cost curves - showing the marginal cost of the CO{sub 2} reducing options and the related quantity of CO{sub 2} reduced - are analyzed and the developed methodology is tested for Denmark. Following the development of a baseline scenario, two main reduction scenarios are constructed: (a) a 20% reduction scenario for year 2005, and (b) a 50% reduction scenario for 2030, taking as its starting point the 20% scenario for 2005. Based on these two reduction scenarios the medium-term cost curve for 2005 and the long-term cost curve for 2030 for CO{sub 2} reduction are established. The economically most attractive and the most efficient options with regard to CO{sub 2} reduction are discussed. Finally, a number of robustness and sensitivity analyses are performed. (au) (27 tabs., 16 ills., 9 refs.)
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 01, 1993
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
RISO-R-728(EN)
Reference Number:
SCA: 540120; 290200; PA: DK-94:001181; EDB-94:065367; NTS-94:013500; SN: 94001180392
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: EFP-91; PBD: Dec 1993
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; CARBON DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT; DENMARK; BIOMASS; COST ESTIMATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY SYSTEMS; EVALUATED DATA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; 540120; 290200; CHEMICALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT; ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY
OSTI ID:
10141316
Research Organizations:
Risoe National Lab., Roskilde (Denmark). Systems Analysis
Country of Origin:
Denmark
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE94756723; CNN: Contract ENS-151/91-0015; ISBN 87-550-1954-4; TRN: DK9401181
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS; Also available on loan from Risoe Library, P.O. Box 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Submitting Site:
DK
Size:
56 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 05, 2005

Citation Formats

Morthorst, P E. The cost of CO{sub 2} reduction in Denmark - methodology and results. Denmark: N. p., 1993. Web.
Morthorst, P E. The cost of CO{sub 2} reduction in Denmark - methodology and results. Denmark.
Morthorst, P E. 1993. "The cost of CO{sub 2} reduction in Denmark - methodology and results." Denmark.
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title = {The cost of CO{sub 2} reduction in Denmark - methodology and results}
author = {Morthorst, P E}
abstractNote = {The report contains phase two of the Danish contribution to the UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Study, which has the main purpose of developing a common methodology for undertaking a cost assessment of greenhouse gas abatement, and to carry out a number of country studies by using this methodology. The methodological possibilities for constructing cost curves - showing the marginal cost of the CO{sub 2} reducing options and the related quantity of CO{sub 2} reduced - are analyzed and the developed methodology is tested for Denmark. Following the development of a baseline scenario, two main reduction scenarios are constructed: (a) a 20% reduction scenario for year 2005, and (b) a 50% reduction scenario for 2030, taking as its starting point the 20% scenario for 2005. Based on these two reduction scenarios the medium-term cost curve for 2005 and the long-term cost curve for 2030 for CO{sub 2} reduction are established. The economically most attractive and the most efficient options with regard to CO{sub 2} reduction are discussed. Finally, a number of robustness and sensitivity analyses are performed. (au) (27 tabs., 16 ills., 9 refs.)}
place = {Denmark}
year = {1993}
month = {Dec}
}