Global energy security under different climate policies, GDP growth rates and fossil resource availabilities

Climatic Change - Tập 136 - Trang 83-94 - 2013
Aleh Cherp1,2, Jessica Jewell1,3, Vadim Vinichenko1, Nico Bauer4, Enrica De Cian5
1Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
2Lund University, Lund, Sweden
3International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
4Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
5Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Venezia, Italy

Tóm tắt

Energy security is one of the main drivers of energy policies. Understanding energy security implications of long-term scenarios is crucial for informed policy making, especially with respect to transformations of energy systems required to stabilize climate change. This paper evaluates energy security under several global energy scenarios, modeled in the REMIND and WITCH integrated assessment models. The paper examines the effects of long-term climate policies on energy security under different assumptions about GDP growth and fossil fuel availability. It uses a systematic energy security assessment framework and a set of global and regional indicators for risks associated with energy trade and resilience associated with diversity of energy options. The analysis shows that climate policies significantly reduce the risks and increase the resilience of energy systems in the first half of the century. Climate policies also make energy supply, energy mix, and energy trade less dependent upon assumptions of fossil resource availability and GDP growth, and thus more predictable than in the baseline scenarios.

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