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"This much-needed book provides an empirically-grounded, and theoretically informed account of international law sources, mechanisms, initiatives and institutions which address and affect the practice of subsidising fossil fuel consumption and production. Drawing on recent scholarship on emerging international governance mechanisms, 'informal' international law-making and regime interaction, it offers suggestions, and critiques suggestions of others, for how the international law framework could be employed more effectively and appropriately to respond to environmentally and fiscally harmful fossil fuel subsidies."

Fossil fuel power plants --- Subsidies --- Fossil fuels

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Fossil fuel power plants --- Carbon dioxide mitigation --- Government policy

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Fossil fuel power plants --- Carbon dioxide mitigation --- Government policy

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Fossil fuel power plants --- Carbon dioxide mitigation --- Law and legislation

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To meet future energy demand growth and replace older or inefficient units, a large number of fossil fuel-fired plants will need to bebuilt worldwide in the next decade. Yet CO2 emissions from fossil-fired power generation are a major contributor to climate change. As a result, new plants must be designed and operated at highest efficiency. The case studies in this report respond to a request to the IEA from the G8 Summit in July 2005  to illustrate the degree of efficiency now achieved in modern plants in different parts of the world using various grades of fossil fuels. The plants were selected from different geographical areas, because local factors influence attainable efficiency.  The results of these analyses show that the technologies for high efficiency (low CO2 emissions) and very low conventional pollutant emissions (particulates, SO2, NOx) from fossil fuel-fired power generation are available now through PCC, IGCC or NGCC at a commercially acceptable cost.

Fossil fuel power plants. --- Fossil fuel power plants --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Environmental Engineering --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental aspects. --- Power-plants