COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions

被引：94

作者：

Bertram, Christoph ^{[1
,2
]}

Luderer, Gunnar ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Creutzig, Felix ^{[4
,5
]}

Bauer, Nico ^{[1
,2
]}

Ueckerdt, Falko ^{[1
,2
]}

Malik, Aman ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Edenhofer, Ottmar ^{[1
,2
,4
,6
]}

机构：

[1] Potsdam Inst Climate Impact Res, Potsdam, Germany

[2] Leibniz Assoc, Potsdam, Germany

[3] Tech Univ Berlin, Global Energy Syst Anal, Berlin, Germany

[4] Mercator Res Inst Global Commons & Climate Change, Berlin, Germany

[5] Tech Univ Berlin, Sustainabil Econ Human Settlements, Berlin, Germany

[6] Tech Univ Berlin, Econ Climate Change, Berlin, Germany

来源：

NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | 2021年 / 11卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1038/s41558-021-00987-x

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to strongly affect global energy systems. Global power sector CO2 emissions have shown a substantial decline, thanks to (a) the COVID-19-induced economic downturn and resulting reduction of electricity demand and (b) a decrease of carbon intensity of power generation as coal generation is decreased most strongly. These effects illustrate the opportunity for different policies to support a structural and accelerating decline of power sector emissions. The societal response to the pandemic has reduced global power demand, disproportionally affecting coal power generation and thus leading to a strong CO2 emissions decline. Policy should apply 2020's lessons to ensure that power sector emissions have peaked in 2018 and go into structural decline.

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页数：9

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