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Abstract -- This paper presents considerations about the
present evolutions regarding the following topics:
• the fight against climate change;
• the ways to meet Kyoto Protocol targets,
• the promotion of renewable resources;
• the use of carbon emissions trading as new weapon to
battle global warming;
• the return to nuclear power use.
There are presented, through comparison the three ways to
fight against global warming from above, reaching the
conclusion that the nuclear power remains a strong viable
solution. The paper also includes a short description of the
Romanian approach in this field.
Index Terms — greenhouse gas (GHG), emissions, global
warming, carbon emission trading, renewable resources,
nuclear power,
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Ways to Mimimize the Greenhouse Gas
Emissions. Romanian Approach
I. INTRODUCTION
HE international treaty on climate change - the Kyoto
Protocol – entered into effect on February 16 2005.
Under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU countries must reduce
their CO2 emissions to 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2010
and the United States target is 7 percent below 1990
emissions.
Figure 1 shows a comparison between the greenhouse gas
emissions per capita registered in 1995 in the main
industrialized countries of the world (source [1]).
Unfortunately, the most important producer of greenhouse
gas emissions, The United States, did not ratify Kyoto
Protocol.
We can say that the challenge for energy supply over the
next 50 years is how to meet the rapidly growing demand for
energy services from a growing population while limiting the
greenhouse gas emissions.
In this context we see the following ways to fight against
climate change by limiting the greenhouse gas emissions:
• Carbon emissions trading (along with JI-CDM
mechanisms of Kyoto Protocol);
• Promotion of renewable resources;
• Return to nuclear power promotion.
I. Manicuta is the Secretary General of the Romanian Power Market
Operator – OPCOM (e-mail: imanicuta@opcom.ro)
M. Manicuta is the Director General of Network Access and Authorization
Department in Romanian Electricity and Heat Regulatory Authority –
ANRE (e-mail: mmanicuta@anre.ro)
I. Manicuta, M. Manicuta
Figure 1 - The greenhouse gas emissions per capita
registered in 1995 in the main industrialize
countries of the world.
II. CARBON EMISSIONS TRADING – A NEW WEAPON
AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING
Environmentalists always said there would be a price to pay
for all the carbon dioxide being spewed into the atmosphere.
Well, now there is.
While prized resources such as oil, gold and wheat have
been traded for decades, there is a budding market for one of
the industrialized world’s abundant but unwanted
byproducts: carbon dioxide, a gas produced when fossil fuels
are burned and which many scientists believe causes global
warning.
If it succeeds, the new market for carbon emissions will
reward business that minimizes their output of this
“greenhouse” gas and it will also benefit the environment.
The only mandatory carbon emissions trading program is in
Europe. It was created in conjunction with the Kyoto
Protocol and caps the amount of carbon dioxide that power
plants and fuel-intensive manufactures in the 25 EU
countries are allowed to emit.
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