Reducing emissions of trace greenhouse gases as an alternative to reducing emissions of carbon dioxide: Part I

The prospects for reducing emissions of trace greenhouse gases and pollutants in the power industry and other branches of the economy are considered. Their environmental control potential in the area of reducing the scale of global changes in the climate in the next century is appraised, as is the possibility of decreasing the ecological pressure on the branches of the economy that are responsible for emissions of carbon dioxide, first and foremost, on the power industry.