Climate policy impacts on energy system: a long-term analysis with the TIMES Integrated Assessment Model (TIAM-FR)

Abstract

Available on: http://www.iiis.org/CDs2011/CD2011SCI/EEEP_2011/PapersPdf/JA513YT.pdfThis paper analyzes technological options to mitigate CO2 emissions and reach the 2°C objective expressed to UNFCCC since COP15, through global and regional climate objectives. The first aim of this paper is evaluate the impact on global CO2 mitigation possibilities according to carbon constraints scenarios and the level of development of different regions An important result consists in the necessary participation of developing countries in the international climate policy. The second main aim of the study is to study the evolution of the energy system for developed and developing countries. While CCS technologies deployment appears as a necessary solution for fast developing countries (especially China), developing countries (and in a lower manner developed countries) need to invest in renewable energies. But in both cases, countries face economical aspects of their energy transition, such as costs, large scale deployment, traditional energy sector core activities and objectives