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CONCLUSION

There are abundant examples, only a few of which have been identified here, in both developed and developing countries, of successful adoption of cost-effective measures to ameliorate carbon dioxide emissions in their electric utility and vehicle sectors. A wide variety of legislative and voluntary programs have been undertaken and the legal and financial mechanisms for doing so also are many and varied. It is possible to meet the Kyoto Protocol goals, and even to go beyond them to meet what the IPCC scientists find is needed to stabilize global warming. This achievement can even be done on a basis of long term profitability; indeed energy efficiency savings are so compelling that they should be undertaken just to save money, regardless of whether the scientific community is right about the risks of global warming. But achieving these goals will take determined action and political will among all the governments and international institutions of the world.

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