
Aleh Cherp
Professor, Coordinator of the MESPOM Consortium

Global energy security under different climate policies, GDP growth rates and fossil resource availabilities
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Summary, in English
Energy security is one of the main drivers of energy policies. Understanding energy security implications of long-term scenarios is crucial for informed policy making, especially with respect to transformations of energy systems required to stabilize climate change. This paper evaluates energy security under several global energy scenarios, modeled in the REMIND and WITCH integrated assessment models. The paper examines the effects of long-term climate policies on energy security under different assumptions about GDP growth and fossil fuel availability. It uses a systematic energy security assessment frame- work and a set of global and regional indicators for risks associated with energy trade and resilience associated with diversity of energy options. The analysis shows that climate policies significantly reduce the risks and increase the resilience of energy systems in the first half of the century. Climate policies also make energy supply, energy mix, and energy trade less dependent upon assumptions of fossil resource availability and GDP growth, and thus more predictable than in the baseline scenarios.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Publication/Series
Climatic Change
Volume
121
Issue
1
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- energy security
- decarbonization scenarios
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0165-0009