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Economic Modeling of the Kyoto Commitment
•National Climate Change Process Modeling
–Analysis and Modeling Group (AMG)
–Lowest cost way of achieving Kyoto
–National modeling projected to 2020
–2013 start time – 10 year build time input data
–Results - no new nuclear plants in Canada
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The National Climate Change Process includes an overall assessment of the the costs to Canada of actions to achieve the Kyoto commitment. The package of input options included new technology to sequester CO2 from coal and initiatives to allow greater use of hydropower via expanded transmission facilities. The analysis predicted very substantial emissions reductions from the electricity sector on the basis of this technology. Any new nuclear plants were precluded from consideration by the model by the assumption that any decision to build new plants would be delayed till at least 2013 and that it would take ten years to build them.

The results of the AMG work are available at: http://www.nccp.ca/NCCP/pdf/AMG_finalreport_eng.pdf