Applying Abatement Cost Curve Methodology for Low-Carbon Strategy in Changning District, Shanghai
The speed and scale of urbanization provide an unprecedented opportunity in the coming years to invest in clean energy technologies to contain carbon emissions from the country's sprawling cities. Therefore, supporting low carbon cities is one...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18821644/applying-abatement-cost-curve-methodology-low-carbon-strategy-changning-district-shanghai-vol-1-2-summary-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16710 |
| Summary: | The speed and scale of urbanization
provide an unprecedented opportunity in the coming years to
invest in clean energy technologies to contain carbon
emissions from the country's sprawling cities.
Therefore, supporting low carbon cities is one of the
government's top priorities. Shanghai municipal and
changning district governments are firmly committed to the
transition to a low-carbon city and requested for the World
Bank's support in making changning district and
Shanghai leaders in designing novel and efficient ways to
achieve carbon-intensity-reduction targets. This report
documents the methodology of and key findings from applying
abatement cost curves and scenarios to set low-carbon
targets and define cost-effective low-carbon investment
programs in Changning district, Shanghai. At the request of
changning district government, the Bank team supported a
Shanghai energy conservation institution, assisted by an
international firm, in conducting a comprehensive survey of
buildings in Hongqiao area in the changning district, and in
developing carbon dioxide (CO2) abatement cost curves to
identify the abatement potential, cost, and ease of
implementation of various mitigation measures. Three
alternative abatement scenarios were developed to establish
an ambitious low-carbon target for Hongqiao area. The use of
CO2 abatement cost curves, bottom-up investigation surveys,
and ease-of-implementation considerations for defining an
investment program to reduce CO2 emissions were the first of
its kind at the time. The abatement cost curve developed
under this upstream analytical work allowed the district
government to make informed decisions about medium-term
targets for CO2 abatement and to identify priority actions
and investments to meet them. This study also provides the
solid analytical underpinning for the design of the World
Bank and Global Environment Facility (GEF) green energy for
low-carbon city in Shanghai project. It includes the
following chapters: executive summary; the objectives: 12th
five-year plan carbon intensity reduction target and beyond;
the methodology: a bottom-up and comprehensive approach; the
bottom-up survey: data collection and identification of
abatement technologies; the abatement measures: carbon
abatement cost curves; the abatement priorities: abatement
technologies ranked by cost and ease of implementation; the
low-carbon targets: abatement scenarios for 2015 and 2020;
from abatement cost curve to implementation: green energy
for low-carbon city in Shanghai project; and the
significance: potential replications in other cities. |
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