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Carmen Bunzl - Universidad Pontificia Comillas

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Chapter 2. Options for future climate change architectures 82<br />

Other potential industries include energy-intensive industries such as float<br />

glass, a few heavy chemical industries, paper and pulp. Negotiations could<br />

develop sector-wide agreements between all companies active in a particular<br />

sector, e.g. all car manufacturers or all cement producers.<br />

Sectoral commitments can be specified in a narrower basis than total national<br />

emissions, and consider specific sector options. The collection of information<br />

and data about the status of a sector may help benchmarking, such as key<br />

performance indicators or identifying best practice, which in the longer term<br />

could help identifying common medium-term goals. Sectoral approaches make<br />

the comparison of efforts between countries within a sector a relatively easy<br />

process – although comparing results across sectors may be difficult.<br />

Sharing and spreading of best practice within companies may increase<br />

operational efficiency; diffusion of technology would improve performance of<br />

the least efficient installations.<br />

Sectoral approaches attempt to engage governments and big industries in<br />

emerging economies, which is where the most potential for emission reduction<br />

lies, because of the tremendous expected emission growth. As sectoral<br />

approaches are mainly voluntary, incentives for participation are needed, such<br />

as technical assistance to improve operational efficiency, access to improved<br />

technology, or developing sector-based GHG credits.<br />

Initiatives that involve governments may have other additional benefits:<br />

sharing of best practice of governments in order to remove regulations and<br />

other barriers on technology diffusion among others; cooperation in<br />

development of new breakthrough technology (e.g. International Iron and Steel<br />

Institute (IISI) CO2 breakthrough programme). Governments and business may<br />

also learn to better understand each other and jointly solve the problem of<br />

climate change.<br />

Sectoral approaches could, as a side-effect, help define national<br />

commitments, cap-setting and allocation (only if free allocation is chosen). Data<br />

Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería ICAI <strong>Carmen</strong> <strong>Bunzl</strong> Boulet Junio 2008

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