Early retirement of power plants in climate mitigation scenarios

Robert Fofrich1, Dan Tong1, Katherine V Calvin2, Harmen-Sytze de Boer3, Johannes Emmerling4, Oliver Fricko5, Shinichiro Fujimori6, Gunnar Luderer7, Joeri Rogelj5 and Steven J Davis1, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, Netherlands, (4)RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), Milan, Italy, (5)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (6)National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany