AVS 50th International Symposium
    Technology for Sustainability Thursday Sessions
       Session AT-ThA

Invited Paper AT-ThA6
Climate, Technology and the Energy Dimension of Sustainable Development

Thursday, November 6, 2003, 3:40 pm, Room 320

Session: Science and Technology Related to Global Effects: Emissions, Climate, and Transport
Presenter: J. Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Authors: J. Edmonds, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
G. Stokes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
J. Clark, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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The global energy system will need to evolve to provide both abundant resources at reasonable prices while simultaneously addressing environmental quality issues ranging from acid rain to mercury emissions to regional air pollution and climate change. Focusing on the goal of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations, we have looked into the inevitable transformation of the global energy system over the next century and beyond. These results suggest that a range of technologies, some likely permanent parts of the future energy and some transitional technologies, will be required to meet the challenge. What emerges are a variety of possible global energy technology strategies where the ability of a particular technology system to meet the cost and environmental goals of society determine the ability of the technology to compete and succeed in meeting the demand for primary energy which may well triple over the course of this century.