World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy SystemsEarthscan, 2004 - 242 pages 'The publication of World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is timely indeed. The World Summit on Sustainable Development gave great prominence to this challenge, but failed to agree on a quantitative, time-bound target for the introduction of renewable energy sources. The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has now produced a report with a global focus, which is essential in view of the global impacts of climate change. The report provides a convincing long-term analysis, which is also essential. Global energy policies have to take a long-term perspective, over the next 50 to 100 years, while providing concrete guidance for decision-makers to implement now. There is an urgent need to secure energy supplies for the 2.4 billion people who still depend upon traditional biomass, while avoiding dangerous climatic changes. Our one world must close the gap between industrialized countries' surfeit and developing countries' poverty. Policies will need to consider both the broader environmental and specific climate constraints. I recommend this book very warmly to everyone concerned with global energy issues' Klaus Topfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems underscores the urgent need to transform global energy systems so that the world's population has access to energy based on renewable sources. This is necessary to protect the global climate and to free those in developing countries trapped by energy poverty. Such an approach would also yield a peace dividend by reducing dependence upon regionally concentrated oil reserves. The authors stress that such a reconfiguration of energy systems is both feasible and fundable if rapid and resolute action is taken in the coming two decades. To this end, they propose a roadmap with specific milestones, making this an indispensable contribution to the scientific and policy debates on these critical issues and essential reading for those engaged with them. |
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... energy policy 32 Interim summary : The starting point for global energy policy 41 Technologies and their sustainable potential 43 Introduction 43 Energy carriers 43 Cogeneration 73 Energy distribution , transport and storage 76 ...
... energy policy 41 Interim summary : The starting point for global energy policy 41 Technologies and their sustainable potential 43 Introduction 43 Energy carriers 43 Fossil fuels Potential 43 43 Technology / Conversion 45 Environmental ...
... energy sector ( selection ) 40 Financing provided by the ECAS from the USA , Japan and Germany for the developing and transition countries ' energy sector 41 Reserves , resources and additional occurrences of fossil energy carriers ...
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Contents
Summary for policymakers | 1 |
Box 2 | 2 |
4 | 9 |
Introduction | 11 |
Table 3 | 14 |
Energy in industrialized countries | 17 |
Energy in transition countries | 26 |
6 | 28 |
Energy for transport | 91 |
An exemplary path for the sustainable transformation | 97 |
5 | 105 |
Guard rails for energy system transformation | 107 |
6 | 113 |
8 | 126 |
Paths towards globally sustainable | 143 |
Actions recommended at the global level | 166 |
The institutional foundation of global energy policy | 32 |
The starting point for global energy policy | 41 |
Technologies and their sustainable potential | 43 |
7 | 52 |
1 | 71 |
Cogeneration | 73 |
Improvements in energy efficiency | 83 |