In the nearly 17 years since the Kyoto Protocol, jurisdictions around the world have, through their efforts to implement Kyoto’s requirements, accumulated sufficient experiential data to allow for a very fast and accurate judgement of these efforts.
The two most important criteria for making this judgement are:
- The carbon content of electricity.
- The price of electricity to consumers.
When carbon content of electricity is juxtaposed with price, as in the Electric Power Carbon-Price Matrix, you can pretty much instantly arrive at a very accurate judgement of how successful national Kyoto implementation efforts have been.
In the sliding presentation below, you can see a very brief summary of the efforts of four European Union countries—Denmark, Finland, France, and Germany—to decarbonize their electricity. Have a look, and see if you can decide which Quadrant of the Carbon-Price Matrix to put each country into.
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