Fig. 2.

(A–L) Environmental and resource implications of electricity generation following the IEA BLUE Map scenario instead of the IEA Baseline scenario, addressing impacts from the indicated power sources. The results show a reduction of pollution-related environmental impacts despite a doubling of electricity generation but a substantial increase of material consumption, especially copper. Left axes show absolute values. Right axes show the variation, in percentage, between these absolute values and the base levels in 2007. Note that the net change can reach values below −100% when the difference between the Baseline and BLUE Map scenarios is higher than the base 2007 levels.