Carbon emission reduction plans for developing countries with natural gas resources, with a case study on Iran’s South Pars Zone

Fast change of climate in the recent years, knowing that the influence of GHG emission is not excluded to the emitter regions, requires for commitment of all countries to implement carbon emission reduction plans. When a main strategy of IEA to mitigate more emission relates to replacement of oil and coal by natural gas, the regions where own large natural gas resources like Iran’s South Pars Zone can take part in this plan by increase of the efficiency in consumption of fuel and expansion of the exports. In this paper, considering the emission shares by various sectors, the opportunities for reduction of emission by various sectors is investigated, and the barriers for development of renewable energies according to the high potential of the region are identified. The results denote that by access of the country to high technology, the cost for generation of renewable energies will decrease to be preferred instead of using fossil fuels.

کلیدواژه ها:

Climate change ، Carbon emission ، South Pars Zone ، fossil fuel ، renewable energy