South Africa's greenhouse gas emissions under business-as-usual: The technical basis of 'Growth without Constraints' in the Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5818-5828

  Winkler, Harald ^a   Hughes, Alison ^a   Marquard, Andrew ^a   Haw, Mary ^b   Merven, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b PJCarew Consulting   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Greenhouse gas projections; Long term mitigation scenarios; South africa

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; DATA SETS; DISCOUNT RATES; ENERGY USE; GHG EMISSION; INTERNATIONAL MODEL; KEY FACTORS; LONG-TERM MITIGATION SCENARIOS; NATIONAL LEVEL; SOUTH AFRICA; TECHNICAL WORK; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

GAS EMISSIONS;

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY PLANNING; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROWTH RATE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 80052754241     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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