Record Details

Latin America and the Cop21 Agreement: A Most Severe Implementation Problematic

Journal of Economics and Public Finance

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Latin America and the Cop21 Agreement: A Most Severe Implementation Problematic
 
Creator Lane, Jan-Erik
 
Description As the Latin American countries have hardly started developing implementation strategies of the agreed upon COP21 objectives, their situation should be more researched. The CO2:s are really high in 2 countries but medium in all the others; Mexico and Brazil that face enormous difficulties with global warming. Thus, the dominant energy reliance remains much fixed upon oil and natural gas, but with some third component like hydro, geothermal or biomass power. Hydro power is used much but it presents a risk as it requires lots of water, which further global warming may deny—look at Venezuela today. Brazil’s plans for 30 new dams in the Amazons together with ongoing logging and new agriculture will destroy the rain forest period Major investments in wind, solar, geo-thermal power or/and nuclear power are called for, besides the plenty biomass and hydro power. But to make a great energy transformation towards renewables and atomic power, the Latin American countries need massive assistance from the promised Super Fund. Only Uruguay has come far with the changes towards renewables, producing electricity with 100% renewables, including wind power.
 
Publisher SCHOLINK INC.
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2017-02-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jepf/article/view/818
10.22158/jepf.v3n1p107
 
Source Journal of Economics and Public Finance; Vol 3, No 1 (2017); p107
2377-1046
2377-1038
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jepf/article/view/818/862
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Journal of Economics and Public Finance