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DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0509-6
WOS记录号: WOS:000477738300013
论文题名:
Prospects for powering past coal
作者: Jewell, Jessica1,2,3,4; Vinichenko, Vadim2,3,5; Nacke, Lola5; Cherp, Aleh5,6
通讯作者: Jewell, Jessica
刊名: NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
ISSN: 1758-678X
EISSN: 1758-6798
出版年: 2019
卷: 9, 期:8, 页码:592-+
语种: 英语
WOS关键词: EMISSIONS ; POLICY
WOS学科分类: Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS研究方向: Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
英文摘要:

To keep global warming within 1.5 degrees C of pre-industrial levels, there needs to be a substantial decline in the use of coal power by 2030(1,2) and in most scenarios, complete cessation by 2050(1,3). The members of the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), launched in 2017 at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, are committed to "phasing out existing unabated coal power generation and a moratorium on new coal power generation without operational carbon capture and storage"(4). The alliance has been hailed as a 'political watershed'(5) and a new 'anti-fossil fuel norm'(6). Here we estimate that the premature retirement of power plants pledged by PPCA members would cut emissions by 1.6 GtCO(2), which is 150 times less than globally committed emissions from existing coal power plants. We also investigated the prospect of major coal consumers joining the PPCA by systematically comparing members to non-members. PPCA members extract and use less coal and have older power plants, but this alone does not fully explain their pledges to phase out coal power. The members of the alliance are also wealthier and have more transparent and independent governments. Thus, what sets them aside from major coal consumers, such as China and India, are both lower costs of coal phase-out and a higher capacity to bear these costs.


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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/144305
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作者单位: 1.Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Space Earth & Environm, Div Phys Resource Theory, Gothenburg, Sweden
2.Univ Bergen, Ctr Climate & Energy Transformat, Bergen, Norway
3.Univ Bergen, Fac Social Sci, Dept Geog, Bergen, Norway
4.Int Inst Appl Syst Anal, Laxenburg, Austria
5.Cent European Univ, Dept Environm Sci & Policy, Budapest, Hungary
6.Lund Univ, Int Inst Ind Environm Econ, Lund, Sweden

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Jewell, Jessica,Vinichenko, Vadim,Nacke, Lola,et al. Prospects for powering past coal[J]. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE,2019-01-01,9(8):592-+
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