Early decarbonisation of the European energy system pays off

Marta Victoria; Kun Zhu; Tom Brown; Gorm B. Andresen; Martin Greiner

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20015-4

Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Early decarbonisation of the European energy system pays off

Marta Victoria,
Kun Zhu,
Tom Brown,
Gorm B. Andresen,
Martin Greiner

Affiliations

Marta Victoria: Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
Kun Zhu: Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
Tom Brown: Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Gorm B. Andresen: Department of Engineering, Aarhus University
Martin Greiner: Department of Engineering, Aarhus University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20015-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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For a given carbon budget between 2020 and 2050, different transformation rates for the European energy system yield starkly different results. Here the authors show that strongly reducing emissions in the first decade is cost-effective and entails additional benefits.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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