INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES

The global industrial sector accounts for approximately 47% of energy related carbon dioxide emissions, and significant quantities of additi onal greenhouse gases (GHGs) are released as industrial process gases. CO2 development trajectories of emissions relative to GDP growth are found to vary considerably among countries, A survey of individual sub sectors finds wide discrepancies among countries in releases per unit of production, GHG industrial emissions are currently lower than they were in the mid-1970s in most industrialized countries, and while abso lute levels have grown in newly industrializing (developing) countries , the rate of growth has slowed and CO2 per unit of GDP has dropped in most cases, A number of technical approaches that account for past re ductions and future options are identified, For mature industrial econ omies opportunities for introducing new, lower emitting technologies o ccur on time scales of a decade or two during natural capital stock tu rnover, but few policies exist to assure their adoption, Making low em ission technologies available to developing countries as they expand t heir industrial sectors, and to Central and Eastern European economies as they restructure and reindustrialize is essential if industrial GH G emissions are to be curtailed. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science L td.