Mediterranean Action Plan

LIBYA - National study
entire Libya. GECOL also responsible for water desalination plants in Libya. GECOL planned
to install desalination plants with amount of one million meter cube per day for the period
from 2007 to 2012, this will need about 1.8 TWh/year. This means that the water desalination
plants will be a major drive for energy demand in Libya.
1.4 Envi ronme n t
Libya is a Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (ratified June 14th, 1999) and it is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol. Thus, Libya
currently is eligible to the CDM. GECOL has already started contacts with international
agencies and investors to use CDM for renewable energy development; the Libyan
government has already issued a law to encourage foreign investors for all sectors.
The main emitters of CO2 in 2003 in Libya, as shown in Figure 9, are fuel combustion in the
power generation sector (38%), in the transport sector (20%) and in industry (8%). Other
sectors represent 34%. In total, energy-related emissions are responsible for almost 100% of
CO2 emissions in the country 6 .
Figure 9 CO2 Emission by sectors
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In 2003 petroleum accounts for more than 60% of carbon emissions in Libya and natural gas
is responsible for around 40% 7 . The increasing reliance on natural gas should work to lower
carbon emissions. Libya„s energy-related CO2 emissions increased by more than 78%, from
less than 18.7 Mte in 1980 to around 50 Mte in 2003 (8% average annual growth between
2001 to 2003), mostly due to increased energy supply Figure 10.
Figure 10 CO2 emissions over the period 1980 to 2003
6 General Electric Company Of Libya , Annual Report.
7 Bureau of Energy Data and Studies, LNEC –Libyan National Energy Information-sixth edition 2004.
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