Solving climate change : a guide for learners and leaders /

This book frames the climate problem in a comprehensive way and cuts through common conceptual confusions that impede rapid action.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Koomey, Jon (Autor), Monroe, Ian (Expert on sustainabiity) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 22.
IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.
Temas:
Climate change mitigation.
Greenhouse gases.
Climate change.
.SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction to the climate problem (short form)
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. It's warming
  • 1.3. It's us
  • 1.4. We're sure
  • 1.5. It's bad
  • 1.6. We can fix it (but we'd better hurry)
  • 1.7. Chapter conclusions
  • 2. Introduction to climate solutions
  • 2.1. Chapter introduction
  • 2.2. Treat climate like the moral issue it is
  • 2.3. Climate change as an adaptive challenge
  • 2.4. Building new fossil infrastructure makes solving the problem harder
  • 2.5. Speeding up the energy transition
  • 2.6. The false choice between innovation and immediate, rapid emissions reductions
  • 2.7. The folly of delay
  • 2.8. Learning by doing only happens if we do!
  • 2.9. How fast should we reduce emissions?
  • 2.10. What we must do
  • 2.11. Visualizing successful climate action
  • 2.12. We have to do it all
  • 2.13. Who's responsible?
  • 2.14. Chapter conclusions
  • 3. Tools of the trade
  • 3.1. Beginning the journey
  • 3.2. Rethinking the design process
  • 3.3. Understanding capital stocks
  • 3.4. Understanding key drivers of emissions
  • 3.5. Creating structured scenario comparisons
  • 3.6. More detailed breakdowns of savings from key options
  • 3.7. A useful way to summarize total emission savings
  • 3.8. Understanding technology cost curves
  • 3.9. Scenario simulation tools
  • 3.10. Life-cycle assessment
  • 3.11. Understanding energy systems
  • 3.12. Following good analytical practice
  • 3.13. Chapter conclusions
  • 4. Electrify (almost) everything
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Creating or adopting a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario
  • 4.3. Analyzing electrification for a climate-positive scenario
  • 4.4. Data sources
  • 4.5. Assessing increases in electricity demand
  • 4.6. What activities can't be easily electrified now?
  • 4.7. A different type of electrification
  • 4.8. Chapter conclusions
  • 5. Decarbonize electricity
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Bringing the future into focus
  • 5.3. What about system reliability?
  • 5.4. What about 100% renewables?
  • 5.5. Creating or adopting a business-as-usual scenario
  • 5.6. Creating the climate-positive scenario
  • 5.7. Data sources
  • 5.8. Chapter conclusions
  • 6. Minimize non-fossil warming agents
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Sources of non-fossil emissions
  • 6.3. Summary of non-fossil emissions by major category
  • 6.4. Creating or adopting a business-as-usual scenario
  • 6.5. Creating the climate-positive scenario
  • 6.6. Data sources
  • 6.7. Chapter conclusions
  • 7. Efficiency and optimization
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Creating or adopting a business-as-usual scenario
  • 7.3. Creating the climate-positive scenario
  • 7.4. Chapter conclusions
  • 8. Remove carbon
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Understanding carbon removal
  • 8.3. Carbon removal is not a silver bullet
  • 8.4. Carbon capture and storage is not the same as carbon removal
  • 8.5. Carbon removal options
  • 8.6. Potentials and costs for carbon removal
  • 8.7. Creating or adopting a BAU scenario
  • 8.8. Creating the climate-positive scenario
  • 8.9. Chapter conclusions
  • 9. Align incentives
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Making it easy
  • 9.3. Changing the game
  • 9.4. Fixing the rules
  • 9.5. Building your scenarios
  • 9.6. Chapter conclusions
  • 10. Mobilize money
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Context
  • 10.3. Price pollution
  • 10.4. Subsidize investments and innovation
  • 10.5. Redirect capital
  • 10.6. Building your scenarios
  • 10.7. Chapter conclusions
  • 11. Elevate truth
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Public understanding about climate lags the science
  • 11.3. What we must do
  • 11.4. Chapter conclusions
  • 12. Bringing it all together
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Telling a good story
  • 12.3. The end of the journey
  • 12.4. Big models or simpler spreadsheets?
  • 12.5. Solving climate is a team sport
  • 12.6. Cross-cutting issues
  • 12.7. Focus on what matters most
  • 12.8. Key pieces of the puzzle
  • 12.9. Chapter conclusions : creating a climate-positive world
  • 13. Our climate-positive future
  • Appendix A. Introduction to the climate problem (long form)
  • Appendix B. Modeling capital stock growth and turnover
  • Appendix C. How we know that much existing fossil capital will need to retire
  • Appendix D. Expanded Kaya decomposition
  • Appendix E. Proper treatment of primary energy
  • Appendix F. Estimated annual revenues from fossil fuel companies and tobacco companies in 2019
  • Appendix G. The effect of carbon prices on existing coal-fired electricity generation and retail gasoline prices.

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