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Instituto Nacional de Ecologia (INE), 22n2, 69b insulation, 51–52, 103 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 14, 22n2 intermittent power generation, 27 international best practices, 25, 48 International Energy Agency (IEA), 48 international support, 103–5 Intersecretarial Commission on Climate Change. See Comisión Intersecretarial de Cambio Climático interventions. See also specific sectors aggregate results, 83–91 agriculture, 5–6 assumptions, 113–40 electric power, 2–3 energy end-use, 4–5 forestry, 5–6 macroeconomic impact of, 89–90 oil and gas, 3–4 by sector, 2–6, 21t selection criteria, 2, 20b, 88–89, 89f summary, 107–8 transport, 5 investments. See also financing electric power interventions, 28–29, 28t marginal abatement investment curve, 95–96, 96f MEDEC low-carbon scenario, 94–97, 96f, 97t oil and gas sector, 3–4, 42b transport interventions, 67 in utilities, 29–30 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 14, 22n2 iron and steel industry, 4, 47–48, 48f, 60n7 irrigation dams, 30
J Japan, cement industry efficiency in, 48 Japan Bank for International Cooperation, 61n9 jatropha biodiesel, 6, 79
K kilns, 48, 76, 81 Kyoto Protocol, 17, 22n4
L landfill sites, 22n6, 91n7 land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF), 15–16, 17, 78–79, 79f land-use planning biofuels and, 6 climate change impact on, 14 coordination on, 9 mitigation potential, 5
transport interventions and, 67, 71, 101b Law for Sustainable Energy Use (2008), 45 leakage and GHG emissions, 3, 15, 39–40, 41t, 118–19 life-cycle cost, 57, 95 light-duty vehicles, 64–65, 65f lighting commercial and public sector, 50, 52, 121 mitigation potential, 4, 7 near-term feasibility, 9 residential sector, 52, 103, 124 street, 52, 121 liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), 37, 49, 50 livestock, 15, 16, 74, 78, 79 local government. See municipal government Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP), 6, 83, 91n1 Los Tuxtlas project, 10 Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LyFC) distribution losses, 25, 25f electricity system role of, 23 financing infrastructure investments, 98 transmission losses, 25, 25f
M macroeconomic impact of low-carbon scenario, 89–90, 90t, 105n5 mangrove destruction, 14 marginal abatement cost curve, 7, 8f, 12b, 88–89, 88f, 95 marginal abatement investment curve, 95–96, 96f market development barriers, 8 mass transit. See bus rapid transit; public transportation mercury vapor lighting, 52 methane emissions, 39–40, 41, 79 Methane to Markets program, 91n6 México: Estudio sobre la Disminución de Emisiones de Carbono (MEDEC). See also specific sectors benefit-cost methodology, 11, 12b, 109–12 low-carbon interventions aggregate results, 83–91, 86t assumptions, 113–40 investment requirements, 94–97, 96f, 97t macroeconomic impact of, 89–90 by sector, 21t selection criteria, 2, 20b, 88–89, 89f summary, 107–8 objectives, 11–13 sector analysis overview, 13, 18–19 minimum energy performance standards (MEPS), 50, 59 mining industry, 47, 48f Ministry of Energy. See Secretaría de Energía
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