IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007
Climate Change 2007: Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change

4.4.3.5 Summary

The cost ranges (US$/tCO2-eq avoided) for each of the technologies analysed in Section 4.4.3 are compared (Table 4.19). The percentage share of the total potential is shown spread across the defined cost class ranges for each region and technology. This assumes that a linear relationship exists between the lowest and highest costs as presented in Section 4.4.3 for each technology and region.

Since each technology is assumed to be promoted individually and crowding-out by other technologies under real-world constraints is ignored, the potentials in Table 4.19 are independent and cannot be added together.