Climate-Friendly Energy Technologies: A Post-Kyoto Comment
Article from: OGEL 3 (2005), in Coal & Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Introduction
The threat of climate change, or global warming, is of increasing concern to communities everywhere. It now seems almost-universally accepted that the climate threat must be addressed by reducing the quantity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that humankind discharges to the atmosphere. The recent ratification of the Kyoto Protocol signified the first treaty-based commitment of many countries to work towards the achievement of specific limits on their GHG emissions. Paradoxically, it once again has highlighted the apparent inadequacy of the Kyoto commitments to achieve their ...