TY - BOOK AU - Gerholm, Tor Ragnar TI - Sustainable scenarios?: An assessment of IPCC'S CO2 emission assumptions U1 - 333.7 PY - 1992/// CY - Viena PB - OPEC KW - Cambio Climático KW - Medio Ambiente KW - Energía KW - Congresos y Conferencias KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Impreso; 06489; A brief background to the current debate on global warming is given. It is pointed out that so far there has been virtually no discussion on the CO2 emission scenarios presented by the intergovernmental panel on climate change - IPCC. The business as-usual scenario is analyzed in some detail. It is argued that this scenario is inconsistent and unsustainable. An entirely different approach is presented, based on an energy demand model corroborated over a 40 year period and extrapolated to the year 2100 ER -