Climate Change Mitigation: An Analysis of Advanced Technology Scenarios

Strengthening Innovation in the United States

“…9 By 2050, abatement costs and GDP costs could be one half of the levels without such technologies; these results accord with those in other studies (Edmonds et al, 2007;Manne and Richels, 1992;and Clarke et al, 2006). This greater research effort would also benefit from enhanced international cooperation to share the costs of public investment, improve access to knowledge and foster the transfer of technologies across countries.…”

Climate Change Technology R&D Portfolio Decision Making Under Uncertainty

“…1 We analyzed each technology separately. Assumptions for all technologies except the specific technology being analyzed are based on the version of MiniCAM used in the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) reference case [10]. The objective of the analysis was to develop marginal abatement cost curves under specific assumptions about the specific energy technologies at a particular time in the future, in this case 2050.…”

Long-Term US Industrial Energy Use and CO2 Emissions

“…The MiniCAM is well suited for addressing climate change questions with a long-term perspective (i.e., multi-decade to century-scale perspective). The model has been used extensively for the U.S. Department of Energy including analysis for the US Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) (Clarke, Wise, et al, 2006) and Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) ; served as the primary analytical framework for PNNL's Global Energy Technology Strategy Project (GTSP) Capstone Report ; and also was one of the models employed to develop the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES, Nakicenovic and Swart, 2000).…”