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IPCC WGIII Fourth Assessment Report, Second Order Draft
renewal of energy supply till 2030 of at least US$ 16 trillion is
critical for the penetration of low carbon technologies (high
confidence).” Such a large cost number is difficult to understand
without some points of reference. Suggest that $16 trillion also be
expressed either as a cost per person figure, and/or as a percent of
world economic output. U.S. Government
(Government of U.S. Department of State)
6 A 7 3 7 3 Who has projected the investment and for what? Why not just begin
the sentence with "investment in …"? If the projected-ness is
important please explain what is meant here.
(Rachel Warren, University of East Anglia)
6 A 7 4 0 0 this is the only "confidence" statement in Section B, replacement
by a qualitative statement (HM?) would lead to consistent
terminology in section B about the future.
(Rob Swart, MNP)
SPM-96 6 B 7 4 7 4 US$ 16 trillions : 10**12?? Please clarify definition of trillion.
(Jean-Pascal van YPERSELE, Université catholique de Louvain
(Belgium))
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6 A 7 5 7 8 This is potentially confusing because investment and deployment of
existing low-carbon technologies will drive considerable
technology improvements in itself
(Iain MacGill, University of NSW)
6 A 7 5 0 7 The role of consumer and corporate behaviour change (eg. energy
conservation) and political will in achieving stabilisation targets
should also be noted.
(Stephen Sheppard, University of British Columbia)
Expert Review of Second-Order-Draft
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SPM 477A.
(4)
TIA in reformulating The source is
IEA and we
want to keep
such
information.
ACC CG
Uncertint
y
(4)
Noted.
Qualification
will be added.
In most
statements.
(4)
ACC; glossary Accepted.
(4)
Rejected. It is
important to
start investment
in existing
technologies.
REJ; not important here Correct. But this
may be
understood as a
subset of
“effective use”
which is the
(4)
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