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U.S. Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80 Percent by 2050, Study Says
2014-11-21 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The United States can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, using existing or near-commercial technologies, according to researchers with the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project. The study analyzed scenarios with four types of decarbonized electricity: renewable energy, nuclear energy, fossil fuel with carbon capture and storage, and a mixed case. The scenarios achieved reductions of 83 percent below 2005 levels and 80 percent below 1990 levels, according to the study, which was...
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