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17 List the various environmental impacts of different renewable energy
sources, biomass, wind and solar PV. How would you assess the serious-
ness of these impacts compared with the advantages to the environment
of the contribution from these sources to the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions?
Notes for Chapter 11
1 See the relevant parts of the 1995 and 2001 IPCC Reports:
Watson, R. T., Zinyowera, M. C., Moss, R. H. (eds.) 1996.Climate Change
1995: Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-
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20, 21 and 22. Metz, B., Davidson, O., Swart, R., Pan, J. (eds.) 2001.Climate
Change 2001: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Third
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Summaries and Chapter 3.
See also IPCC Technical Paper number 1Technologies, Policies and
Measures for Mitigating ClimateChange. Geneva: IPCC, 1997.
2 1 toe=11.7 MWh; 1 toe per day=487 kW; 1 toe per year=1.33 kW.
3 Report of G8 Renewable Energy Task Force, July 2001.
4 Moomaw, W. R., Moreira, J. R.et al. 2001. Technological and economic
potential of greenhouse gas emissions reduction. In Metz,Climate Change
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5 See Moomaw, W. R., Moreira, J. R.et al. 2001. Technological and economic
potential of greenhouse gas emissions reduction. In Metz,Climate Change
2001: Mitigation, Chapter 3.
6 FromEnergy for Tomorrow’s World: the Realities, the Real Options and
the Agenda for Achievement. WEC Commission Report. New York: World
Energy Council, 1993.
7 Renewable Energy Resources: Opportunities and Constraints 1990–2020.
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8 A review of many of these can be found in Morita, T., Robinson, J.et al.
- Greenhouse gas emissionmitigation scenarios and implications. In
Metz,Climate Change 2001: Mitigation, Chapter 2.
9 FromEnergy for Tomorrow’s World: the Realities, the Real Options and
the Agenda for Achievement. WEC Commission Report. New York: World
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10 FromEnergy for Tomorrow’s World: the Realities, the Real Options and
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11 Ways of achieving large reductions in all these sectors are described by von
Weizacker, E., Lovins, A. B., Lovins, L. H. 1997.Factor Four, Doubling
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