Scenarios for Reducing Emissions
The Art
SCENARIOS FOR REDUCING EMISSIONS
The Science
What’s Alarming
“Reducing carbon emissions from a higher scenario… to a lower scenario… can be accomplished with a combination of many technologies and policies. In this example, these emissions reduction ‘wedges’ could include increasing the energy efficiency of appliances, vehicles, buildings, electronics, and electricity generation (orange wedges); reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels by switching to lower-carbon fuels or capturing and storing carbon (blue wedges); and switching to renewable and non-carbon-emitting sources of energy, including solar, wind, wave, biomass, tidal and geothermal (green wedges) The shapes and sies of the wedges shown here are illustrative only. Source: adapted from Walsh et.al. 2014.”
