What countries can do about cutting carbon emissions

McKinsey Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Enkvist, Per Anders ^a   Nauclér, Tomas ^a   Riese, Jens ^b  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b Munich Office   (Germany)

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EID: 44349189136     PISSN: 00475394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (4)

1. Readers can obtain copies of the full reports on the four countries on mckinsey.com.
2. In other words, emissions will rise as an economy grows, so we measured the cuts against expected "business as usual" growth in emissions if countries go on doing what they do now.
3. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technology to separate carbon dioxide from the combustion gases in power plants and other large emission sources and to store it underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.
4. See Anja Hartmann, Jens Riese, and Thomas Vahlenkamp, "Cutting carbon, not economic growth: Germany's path," mckinseyquarterly.com, April 2008. This article is accompanied by an interactive set of exhibits.