UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER
The pathway towards decarbonisation 2050
A comparison of the behavior of Germany and the UK towards CO2 emission targets
Bachelor Thesis 9/23/2016
Supervisor at University Twente: Dr. M.R.R. Ossewaarde
Supervisor at WWU Münster: Dr. Ivo Hernandez
427 356 354 364 367 346 347 187
125 126 121 122 120 120 164
154 156 155 159 161 164 96
62 62 61 61 61 62
131
107 91 95 101 85 89
78
62 64 63 65
66 67 165
75 69 67 70
63 63 1248
941 922 926 945
902 912 749
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
1990 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015* 40%
target CO2 equivalent Emissions in Million tonnes
Other Agriculture Households Industry Transport Construction Energy Industries Total
*: Estimation by Green Budget Germany, 2016.
31,1
23 24,5 25,5 25,2 24,8 23,8 25,6
18,5 18,3 18,5 19,9 18,9 18,1 6,5
14,1 14 12,1 10,6 9,7 9,1 27,7
22,2 17,6 15,8 15,2 15,5 14,1 3,6
16,6 20,2 22,8 23,9 25,9 30,1
20 30 40 50 60 70 80
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1990 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Percentage of Energy Dependency
Share of energy sourcers in Power Production
Renewables Other Oil
Nuclear Power Natural Gas Hard Coal Lignite
Energy Dependence
278 207 192 203 190 164 145 115
95 88 88 91
89 87 122
120 118 118 117
118 119 60
13 11 11 13
13 12 80
88 67 77 77
64 67 59
48
48 48 48
49 49 83
31
29 26 21
17 18 797
602
553 571 557
514 497 518 478
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
1990 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015* 35%
target 40%
target CO2 equivalent Emissions in Million tonnes
Other Agriculture Households Industry Transport Business
Energy Industries Total
* : Provisional statistics
69,0%
28,2% 29,5% 39,4% 36,4%
29,6%
22,3%
46,0% 39,9% 27,5%
26,7%
29,8%
29,5%
19,0% 16,3%
18,8% 19,4%
19,7%
18,9%
20,7%
1,7%
6,8% 9,4% 11,3% 14,9% 19,1%
24,6%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1990 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Share of energy sourcers in Power Production
Renewables Other Oil Nuclear Gas Coal
Energy Dependency
