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Buildings--the Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global CO2 Abatement

Posted on August 06, 2008

The Vattenfall/McKinsey Report A Cost Curve for Greenhouse Gas Reduction contains a graph (below) that everybody needs to see. The graph shows how much greenhouse gas abatement potential lies in some popular strategies/technologies, and simultaneously shows the monetary cost of each strategy. The first thing you notice when you see the graph is that the cost for many abatement strategies is negative. That means these strategies make money, they don't cost money. The second thing that you notice is most of the money-making strategies are in the building industry: better insulation, better ...

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