A comparative study of climate change mitigation regime proposals, and the Triptych approach, and a South African energy model

Global climate change is one of the most serious challenges facing the world with the cause being increased levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The required solution is a decrease in global GHG emission levels. Under the UNFCCC a number of proposals exist for decreasing CO₂ levels. This thesis first makes use of the FAIR 2.2 policy support tool to determine South Africa’s GHG reduction requirements under the South-North dialogue, Contraction and Convergence and Multi-stage proposals. A Triptych 7.0 regime target was calculated for South Africa using both the FAIR 2.6 model and a MARKAL representation of South Africa, developed at the ERC.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Manley, Jonathan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Winkler, Harald

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5511

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5511