So the best technology depends on the final cost, carbon mitigation potential, and consumer needs in each case.
Secondly, for every customer on the tariff there must be an additional measurable form of carbon mitigation to the equivalent of 50kg CO2 per customer per year.
As with steel or aluminium, it is unlikely to be dislodged from industrial processes any time soon, so some form of carbon mitigation is essential.
The climate wedges are, after all, alive and well at what is now the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton, where they've even been made into a board game.
"In terms of global carbon mitigation, there are billions of dollars to be gained from slowing deforestation and sequestering carbon in indigenous forests".
Robert Socolow, of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, has come up with 15 "stabilization wedges -all of wedges -allss the proflem of stabilizing carbon-dioxide emissions.
China also rejects India's approach that per-capita emission levels and historic contributions to the build-up of greenhouse gases should form the objective criteria for carbon mitigation.
Developed countries have promised to deliver an additional UD$100bn in support for carbon mitigation and support for resilience in poor countries.
Robert H. Socolow, an engineering professor at Princeton and the co-director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative there, said he was encouraged that some chemical factories and other industries were working on carbon capture without government incentives.
And the benefit of renewables, unlike fossil fuels, is that renewables never run out.Meeting the British government's legally binding carbon mitigation target of 80% by 2050 is going to be difficult enough.
U.S.: Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative.
