Summary for Policy Makers: Green Energy Choices: The Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon

This guidance document examines the main commercially available renewable and non-renewable power generation technologies, analysing their GHG emissions, but also trade-offs in terms of: 1) environmental impacts (impacts on ecosystems, eutrophication and acidification, etc.), 2) impacts on human health (particulates, toxicity) and 3) resource use implications (concrete, metals, energy intensity, water use and land use).