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First Order Draft, Industry: From Page 0
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I regret I have not had time to review the Sectoral chapters in depth. It may be interesting to clarify the extent to which industrial energy use is driven by rational “Domain 2” decisionmaking processes (the System 2 of the FOD Chapter 2), at least compared to decisionmaking in buildings and transport. This – within limits – is the broad suggestion laid out in the structure-setting Chapter 3 of Grubb, Hourcade and Neuhoff, Planetary Economics: the Three Domains of
View full comment by Michael Grubb...
First Order Draft, Industry: From Page 10 , Line 40 To Page 11 , Line 17
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There is no reflection here of 'embedded emissions'. So China only exported 5.3% of the rolled steel it produced - for what purposes was it used? What proportion of China's production of this and other products were used in manufatured goods for export? What was the scale of embedded emissions in those products imported by major industrialised countries. This is intellectually bogus analysis.
View full comment by Michael Jefferson...
First Order Draft, Industry: From Page 22 , Line 26
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The reference for ""high costs"" of CCS should be deleted. High costs relative to what? Offshore wind turbines are an extremely high cost way of mitigating CO2, as are many other technologies. The reason that the IEA blue map scenario contains a large proportion of CCS is that overall it is an extremely cost-effective method of CO2 abatement, particularly when issues of grid stability and balancing are taken into account. From the IEA CCS roadmap ""Carbon capture and stor
View full comment by paul fennell...
First Order Draft, Industry: From Page 24 , Line 9 To Page 24 , Line 29
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Good to see these options at least considered.
View full comment by Mark Charlesworth...
First Order Draft, Industry: From Page 24
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This section seems very thin given the recent public debate about the limits to economic growth as an indicator of economic success - rather than being a strategy of 'last resort' it should be considered as a serious policy option deserving of more study and emphasis
View full comment by Andy Haines...
First Order Draft, Industry: From Page 6 , Line 24 To Page 6 , Line 26
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It would be more specific to say that the short term payback promoted by speculative capital make mitigation with substantial but longer term paybacks make financing mitigation investment difficult to obtain in the absence of legislative requirements.
View full comment by Mark Charlesworth...