ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ECONOMIC-EFFICIENCY AND FUTURE CO2 EMISSIONS FROM THE DEVELOPING-WORLD

This paper examines the potential role of energy efficiency and econom ic efficiency in influencing the future carbon dioxide emissions of de veloping countries. it explores and offers support to the hypothesis t hat, despite the potential value to the developing world of greater en ergy efficiency, if tight restrictions on global carbon dioxide emissi ons were considered necessary, efficiency alone could make only a limi ted contribution to restraining the projected growth of developing cou ntry emissions. This is because of the projected rapid energy growth r ates in most developing countries, especially in the industrial sector and from fossil-fuelled Electricity and transport, associated with gr owth in per capita incomes and population. The potential contribution of other possible measures to address global carbon dioxide emissions, particularly fuel-switching, is also briefly examined.