Vattenfall - Other industrials

Other industrials

The region Other industrials includes the following countries: Australia, Bahrain, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. This region has current greenhouse gas emissions of 4.5 Gt CO₂e (in 2002). The business-as-usual scenario implies an increase to about 6.6 Gt CO₂e per year in 2030.

Abatement potential

The abatement potential for the region is estimated to about 2.5 Gt CO₂e. The largest potential, in relative terms, is found in the Buildings sector where the abatement potential is estimate to ca 70% of the business-as-usual emissions in 2030. This is followed by the Industry sector (ca 40%), Power (ca 35%) and Transport (30%). The Agriculture and waste sector has a much lower potential slightly below 15% of business-as-usual emissions. No potential has been found in the Forestry sector.

Abatement cost

The average cost varies substantially between the sectors. Within Buildings and Transport there is a significant potential of negative cost abatement opportunities. Looking only at the abatement potential at a cost below € 40/tonne CO₂e, the average abatement cost in these two sectors are € -140/tonne CO₂e in Buildings and € -15/tonne CO₂e in Transport. Virtually all of the potential within these sectors come at a zero or negative cost. The other sectors have a cost of
€ 12/tonne CO₂e in Agriculture and € 22/tonne CO₂e in the Power and Industry sectors. The average cost across all sectors turns out to be negative due to the significant amount of negative cost opportunities in the Buildings and Transport sector. A more conservative estimate, valuing the negative cost opportunities at zero, would result in an average abatement cost of about € 12/tonne CO₂e in this region.