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5/24/2018 | 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS OF AMAZON HYDROPOWER | 430 B

GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS OF AMAZON HYDROPOWER

Greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from reservoirs account for ~ 2% of the global anthropogenic CO2-equivalent GHG emissions. Despite common perceptions that hydropower is cleaner than fossil fuels as a source of electricity, evidence indicates that the GHG emissions from some existing Amazonian hydropower reservoirs exceed those of thermal power plants of equivalent power generation, due particularly to methane emission. Nevertheless, reservoir emissions continue to be overlooked in the environmental licensing process for hydropower facilities in South America, and this is of particular concern considering that over 180 large dams are planned for construction throughout the Amazon basin. In this talk we discuss how we can predict GHG emissions from Amazonian reservoirs, and we identify proposed hydropower facilities that may be particularly high in GHG emissions compared to conventional thermoelectric sources.

Dams
Carbon
Policy

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Rafael Almeida (), Cornell University, rafaelmarquesjf@yahoo.com.br;