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6. How could greenhouse gas emissions be reduced?
6.1. How is Climate Change a unique problem?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 2:
1.2.5
Distributional impacts and equity considerations
1.3
Equity and sustainable development
10.1.2
Scope of the problem
10.1.4
Progress since the second assessment report on decision analytical frameworks
10.4.5
Who should pay for the response?
The following IPCC
WG III documents support Paragraph 3:
2.2.2
Mitigation and stabilization scenarios
2.3.2
Quantitative characteristics of mitigation scenarios
2.4.4
Global futures scenarios, greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable development
2.5
Special report on emissions scenarios (SRES) and post-SRES mitigation scenarios
The following IPCC
WG III documents support Paragraphs 4-5
1.3
Equity and sustainable development
1.4
Global sustainability and climate change mitigation
2.2.3
Scenarios and “development, equity, and sustainability (DES)”
2.4.4
Global futures scenarios, greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable development
2.5
Special report on emissions scenarios (SRES) and post-SRES mitigation scenarios
7.2.2
Cost estimation in the context of the decisionmaking framework
8.2.4
Ancillary benefits
The following IPCC
WG III documents support Paragraph 6
2.5.1
Special report on emissions scenarios: summary and differences from TAR
2.5.2
Review of post-SRES mitigation scenarios
3.8.3
Historic trends and driving forces
8.4
Social, environmental, and economic impacts of alternative pathways for meeting
a range of concentration stabilization pathways
6.2. What are the options for reducing greenhouse
gas emissions?
6.2.1. What technologies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 7:
3.1
Technological and Economic Potential of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction:
Introduction
4.7
Biological uptake in oceans and freshwater reservoirs, and geo-engineering
3.3
Buildings
3.4
Transport and mobility
3.5
Manufacturing industry
3.8.4
New technological options
3.6
Agriculture and energy cropping
Chapter
3 Appendix: Options to reduce global warming contributions from substitutes
for ozone-depleting substances
6.2.2. How can forests and agricultural lands
help carbon mitigation?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 8:
3.6
Agriculture and energy cropping
4.3
Processes and practices that can contribute to climate mitigation
4.4
Environmental costs and ancillary benefits
6.2.3. What are the paths to a low emissions
future?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 9:
2.3.2
Quantitative characteristics of mitigation scenarios
2.4
Global futures scenarios
2.5
Special report on emissions scenarios (SRES) and post-SRES mitigation scenarios
The following IPCC
WG III documents support Paragraph 10:
1.4.3
Decoupling wellbeing from production
5.3.8
Social, cultural, and behavioural norms and aspirations
10.3.2
Development choices and the potential for synergy
10.3.4
Decision-making frameworks for sustainable development and climate change
6.3. What would be the costs of implementing
the Kyoto Protocol?
6.3.1. Why do cost and benefits estimates
of mitigation actions differ?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 11:
7.2
Elements in costing
7.3
Analytical structure and critical assumptions
8.2.1
Gross aggregated expenditures in greenhouse gas abatements in technology-rich
models
8.2.2
Domestic policy instruments and net mitigation costs
9.4
Why studies differ
6.3.2. How can some mitigation actions carry
no or negative cost?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 12:
7.3.4
Assumptions about technology options
7.3.3
Cost implications of different scenario approaches
8.2.4
Ancillary benefits
9.2.2
Coal
9.2.8
Transport
9.2.10
Households
7.3.3
Cost implications of different scenario approaches
8.2.2
Domestic policy instruments and net mitigation costs
9.2.1
Impacts from multisectoral studies
6.3.3. What will the Kyoto Protocol cost to
developed countries?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 13:
7.3.5
Cost Implications of Alternative GHG Emission Reduction Options and Carbon Sinks
8.3.1
International Emissions Quota Trading Regimes
9.2.3
Petroleum and Natural Gas
10.4.4.
Where Should the Response Take Place? The Relationship between Domestic Mitigation
and the Use of International Mechanisms
6.3.4. How will the mitigation costs vary
with the CO2 stabilization level?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 14:
2.5.2
Review of post-SRES mitigation scenarios
8.4.1
Alternative pathways for stabilization concentrations
10.4.6
Towards what objective should the response be targetted?
6.3.5. How will the mitigation costs be distributed
among industries?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 15:
9.2.1
Impacts from multisectoral studies
6.3.6. How will the Kyoto Protocol affect
developing countries?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 16:
8.3.2
Spillover effects: economic effects of measures in countries on other countries
9.3
International spillovers from mitigation strategies
8.3.2.2
Effects of emission leakage on global emissions pathways
6.4. What are the ways and means for mitigation?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 17:
1.5
Integrating across the essential domains–cost-effectiveness, equity, and
sustainability
5.3
Sources of barriers and opportunities
5.4
Sector- and technology-specific barriers and opportunities
6.4.1. What policy instruments can be used
to reduce greenhouse gas?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 18:
6.2
National policies, measures, and instruments
6.4.2. How can the effectiveness of mitigation
be enhanced?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 19:
2.2.3
Scenarios and “development, equity, and sustainability (DES)”
2.4.4
Global futures scenarios, greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable development
2.4.5
Conclusions
2.5.1
Special report on emissions scenarios: summary and differences from TAR
2.5.2
Review of post-SRES mitigation scenarios
10.3.2
Development choices and the potential for synergy
10.3.4
Decision-making frameworks for sustainable development and climate change
6.4.3. How can mitigation costs be reduced?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 20:
6.3
International policies, measures, and instruments
6.4.2
Conflicts with international environmental regulation and trade law
10.2.7
Political science perspectives
10.2.8
Implementation and compliance
6.4.4. Should decision-making concentrate
on the long term or near term?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 21:
2.3.2
Quantitative characteristics of mitigation scenarios
2.5.2
Review of post-SRES mitigation scenarios
8.4.1
Alternative pathways for stabilization concentrations
10.4.2
What should the response be? The relationship between adaptation and mitigation
The following IPCC
WG III documents support Paragraph 22:
10.4.3
When should the response be made? Factors influencing the relationships between
the near-term and long-term mitigation portfolio
6.4.5. What is the role of an international
regime in climate policy?
The following IPCC WG III documents
support Paragraph 23:
1.3
Equity and sustainable development
10.2
International regimes and policy options
6.5. What in the current knowledge needs to
be improved?
The IPCC does not suggests any document
to support Paragraph 24.
Contributors: IPCC
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IPCC
WG III,
other references are selected by
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