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FROM VOLUME 10, NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 1997

REPORTS...
NATIONAL EMISSIONS

Item #d97sep43

Annual Energy Outlook 1997, U.S. Energy Info. Admin., Jan. 1997, no charge (EIA). Full text available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo97/homepage.html.

Presents forecasts of U.S. energy supply, demand, and prices through 2015. A section on carbon emissions concludes that slower rise in per capita emissions will fail to offset population growth, leading to a continued rise in emissions; coal is the main source of carbon emissions from electricity production.

Item #d97sep44

Digest of Environmental Statistics No. 19, 1997, U.K. Dept. Environ., Transport & Regions, July 1997, £30/$50 (HMSO).

Brings together core statistics on a large range of environmental issues from climate change to land use, focusing on geographical variation and on performance in relation to national targets. U.K. emissions of CO₂ and methane fell 7% and 15% respectively between 1990 and 1995.

Item #d97sep45

Trends in Canada's Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1990-1995), June 1997 (Environ. Canada).

Emissions increased 9.2% over the period; 1995 emissions were about 2% of the global total. Emissions of CO₂ grew slower (7.8%) than those of the other two major greenhouse gases, methane (16%) and nitrous oxide (22%).

Item #d97sep46

Canada's Energy Outlook 1996-2020, 1997 (Natural Resources Canada). Full text available at http://www.es.nrcan.gc.ca/ceo/toc-96E.html.

Projects that greenhouse gas emissions will be 8.2% higher than 1990 levels by 2000, 19% higher in 2010, and 36% higher in 2020. Energy efficiency and voluntary programs are expected to pay a large role in moderating the increase.

Item #d97sep47

Environmental Performance Reviews--Korea, 196 pp., 1997, $35 (OECD).

Korea is now taking vigorous action to solve environmental problems that were neglected earlier in its economic development. Yet CO₂ emissions closely follow GDP growth, and in 2000 will be 80% higher than in 1990. Korea has not yet developed a climate change policy that can adequately respond to its fast-growing emissions.

Item #d97sep48

New Zealand: Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 1990-95, 1996, US$31/NZ$45 (N.Z. Ministry of Commerce).

Covers emissions from domestic transport, industry, electricity generation, petroleum refining, and the commercial, residential and agricultural sectors. New Zealand's gross CO₂ emissions will exceed 1990 levels by 22-25% by the year 2000, and net emissions are unlikely to stabilize at 1990 levels. New Zealand has expected forests, acting as a CO₂ sink, to meet 80% of its CO₂ emissions reductions. However, projections have been revised since 1994 because forest absorption modeling techniques have been refined and planting projections amended downwards.