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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
121Future Socio-Economics, Energy, Land Use, and Radiative Forcing
than the scenarios where the terrestrial carbon stock is valued. And, in such
less-than-ideal scenarios, bioenergy accounts for a major share of the global
energy system, replacing fossil fuel uses, particularly in the case where the
demand for emissions mitigation is large (e.g., POP14/MDG and POP9/
MDG). By contrast, in the scenarios families with the universal coverage of
carbon emissions (i.e., scenarios with MDG+), renewable energy or nuclear
power plays a more important role than bioenergy in lowering the carbon
intensity of the energy system and fullling the mitigation ...
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