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UNEP PNUE WMO OMM INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGIES, POLICIES AND MEASURES FOR MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC Technical Paper I [...]... as cooking, illumination, comfortable indoor climate, refrigerated storage, transportation and consumer goods using primary and secondary energy forms, as appropriate 10 Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change development and deployment of these technologies and practices, no one measure will be sufficient for the timely development, adoption and diffusion of mitigation options... reductions and other environmental results; economic and social effects; and administrative, institutional and political 3 Because of its potential effects on market creation, government procurement is counted as a market-based programme in some sections of this paper Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change 11 Box 2 Criteria for Evaluation of Technologies and Measures 1 GHG and. .. environmental effects 6 Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change Forest Sector High- and mid-latitude forests are currently estimated to be a net carbon sink of about 0.7 ± 0.2 Gt C/yr Low-latitude forests are estimated to be a net carbon source of 1.6 ± 0.4 Gt C/yr, caused mostly by clearing and degradation of forests (SAR II, 24.2.2) These sinks and sources may be compared... regeneration, forestation and agroforestry constitute the primary mitigation measures for carbon conservation and sequestration Among these, slowing deforestation and assisting regeneration in the tropics (about 22–50 Gt C) and forestation and agroforestry in the tropics (23 Gt C) and temperate zones (13 Gt C) hold the most technical potential of conserving and sequestering carbon To the extent that forestation... measures have aided the development and commercialization of new energy demand-management and Training and capacity building may be prerequisites for decision-making related to climate change and for formulating appropriate policies and measures to address this issue Training and capacity building can promote timely dissemination of information at all levels of society, facilitating acceptance of new regulations... provides an overview and analysis of technologies and measures to limit and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to enhance GHG sinks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) The paper focuses on technologies and measures for the countries listed in Annex I of the FCCC, while noting information as appropriate for use by non-Annex I countries Technologies and measures are... developing countries for cooking Fuel switching from biomass fuels for cooking to sustainable, renewable fuels such as biogas or alcohol in developing countries can reduce these emissions (SAR II, 22.4.1.4) 14 Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change Table 1: Selected examples of measures and technical options to mitigate GHG emissions in the buildings sector Climate and Other Environmental... on test procedures and on standard levels – Raising capital for testing – Reduced future energy-generation requirements Political Factors – Opposition from manufacturers – Opposition from other affected groups – Responding to environmental and consumer concerns – Qualitatively similar to mandatory energy-efficiency standards Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change 15 Table 1... Energy-efficient Technologies”) 16 2.2.2 Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change Building Thermal Integrity Heating and cooling of residential buildings is largely needed to make up for heat transfer through the building envelope (walls, roofs and windows) Energy savings of 30–35% between 1990 and 2010 have been estimated for retrofits to U.S buildings built before 1975, but only half of... been limited analyses and the costs and savings depend both on the specific technologies that are promoted and the method of implementation of the programme 8 Also see Section 9, Economic Instruments Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change The major administrative, institutional and political issues in implementing market-based programmes for residential and commercial building . PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGIES, POLICIES AND MEASURES FOR MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC Technical Paper I