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Options for Low-Carbon Development in Countries of the Gulf Cooperation  Council / Charles Ebinger, Nathan Hultman, Kevin Massy, Govinda  Avasarala, Dylan Rebois. Brookings Institution, June 2011, 35 p. (Policy  Brief 11-02)http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/06_low_carbon_ebinger.aspxThis paper was informed by the proceedings of the Doha Carbon and Energy  Forum, a two-day workshop held in Doha, Qatar from November 8-10, 2010.Executive Summary (© Brookings Institution) :Over the next twenty years the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council  (GCC) are likely to experience some of the fastest economic and  energy-consumption growth rates anywhere in the world. Already almost  exclusively dependent on hydrocarbons for their energy supply, the GCC  member states face increasing environmental and economic costs from  continued heavy reliance on oil and gas in their power-generation and  industrial sectors. Several of the GCC countries have asserted their  interest in diversifying their economies away from the export of raw  materials and energy-intensive industry in order to achieve sustainable  long-term economic growth and security...