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Disproportionality in Power Plants' Carbon Emissions: A Cross-National Study. Öffentlichkeit Deposited

https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/articles/wd375w937
Abstract
  • Past research on the disproportionality of pollution suggests a small subset of a sector's facilities often produces the lion's share of toxic emissions. Here we extend this idea to the world's electricity sectors by calculating national-level disproportionality Gini coefficients for plant-level carbon emissions in 161 nations based on data from 19,941 fossil-fuel burning power plants. We also evaluate if disproportionalities in plant-level emissions are associated with increased national carbon emissions from fossil-fuel based electricity production, while accounting for other well-established human drivers of greenhouse gas emissions. Results suggest that one potential pathway to decreasing nations' greenhouse gas emissions could involve reducing disproportionality among fossil-fuel power plants by targeting those plants in the upper end of the distribution that burn fuels more inefficiently to produce electricity.
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Date Issued
  • 2016-07-01
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Journal Title
Journal Volume
  • 6
File Extent
  • 28661-28661
Zuletzt geändert
  • 2019-12-05
Identifier
  • PubMed ID: 27363677
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Urheberrechts-Erklärung
DOI
ISSN
  • 2045-2322
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