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Abstract
With their increasing shares of global emissions developing economies are increasingly being pressured to assume a greater role in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction. Developed countries have invested tremendously in and proclaimed renewable energy (RE) and associated smart power technologies as solutions to meet their energy demands and reduce their GHG emissions at the same time. However, in the developing economies, these technologies may not deliver the desired results because they have their unique characteristics and priorities, which are different from those of the developed world. Many GHG emission reduction technologies are still very expensive and not fully developed. For the developing economies, the adoption threshold may become very high. Therefore, the cost effectiveness and practicality of each technology in reducing GHG emission in the developing economies may be very different from that of the developed economies. In this paper, available RE and other GHG emission reduction technologies are individually considered in a case study on Sabah, one of the 13 states in Malaysia, in order to assess the effects of the individual technologies on GHG emission and electricity cost reductions.
Highlights
The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on the living environment are undoubtedly damaging if not contained
Using the output data obtained from the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) model, the results are computed and analyzed in terms of electricity cost, GHG emissions and sensitivity to fuel price increase
The output data from LEAP for all the scenarios are exported for further computations using
Summary
The impacts of GHG emissions on the living environment are undoubtedly damaging if not contained. The world is still unable to reach a climate deal because of the complexity of the issues involved. One of the reasons for the failure is the difficulty for the developed and developing countries to achieve a mutually agreeable share of responsibility for solving the issue [1]. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto. Protocol have divided the nations into developed countries and developing countries, with common but differentiated responsibilities assigned to each group. The developed countries, commonly known as the Annex I countries, were mandated to implement control actions to reduce the GHG emission to a specific level in the Kyoto Protocol. The developing countries, or the non-Annex I countries were exempt from these control actions [2]
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