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Box 4: Four Scenarios for 2050, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 22nd Report, Energy– The Changing Climate, June 2000. Crown copyright material is reproduced under class licence number C01W0000065 with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

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4 © Accent Alaska

5 © Tony Bennets/Lonely Planet Images

6 © Bryan & Cherry Alexander Photography

7 © Mary Evans Picture Library

11 © Greenpeace/Carr

12, BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2001

16 & 17 BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2002

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19 Used by permission from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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31 © Derek Taylor

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42 With permission, from the Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Volume 25 © 2000 by Annual Reviews www.annualreviews.org

44 © North Wales Newspapers

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50 Blunden, J. and Reddish, A. (1991), 'Energy efficiency of different transport modes', figure 5.3, p. 40, Energy Resources and Environment, Hodder & Stoughton, by permission of the authors

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55 Courtesy of IEA Greenhouse Gas R & D Programme

56 World Energy Assessment: Energy and The Challenge of Sustainability, © 2000 UNDP

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