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Industry

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Authors

Bernstein, Lenny, Joyashree Roy, K. K Casey Delhotal, Jochen Harnisch, Ryuji Matsuhashi, Lynn K Price, Kanako Tanaka, Ernst Worrell, Francis Yamba, Zhou Fengqi

Abstract

This chapter addresses past, ongoing, and short (to 2010) and medium-term (to 2030) future actionsthat can be taken to mitigate GHG emissions from the manufacturing and process industries.

Globally, and in most countries, CO₂ accounts for more than 90% of CO₂-eq GHG emissions fromthe industrial sector (Price et al., 2006; US EPA, 2006b). These CO₂ emissions arise from threesources: (1) the use of fossil fuels for energy, either directly by industry for heat and power genera-tion or indirectly in the generation of purchased electricity and steam; (2) non-energy uses of fossilfuels in chemical processing and metal smelting; and (3) non-fossil fuel sources, for example ce-15 ment and lime manufacture. Industrial processes also emit other GHGs.

Journal

Climate Change 2007: Mitigation

Year of Publication

2007

Notes

Contribution of Working group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A. Meyer (eds)]