Fwd: Mitigation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sinks, and Solutions

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780081029756000212

Chapter 21 - Mitigation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sinks, and Solutions

Lee Hannah

Abstract

Stopping climate change requires much more than emissions reductions: it requires stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations. In the absence of large new additional sinks for CO2 and other GHGs, stabilization equates to reducing emissions nearly to zero. In turn, near-zero emissions means complete transition of the world's energy supply to renewable (non-CO2-emitting) sources. This is a huge task—one that will need to be accomplished in stages.