Climate change and clean energy management, Wang, Henry K. H

Автор: Hilmar ?or Hilmarsson
Название: International Financial Institutions, Climate Change and the Urgency to Facilitate Clean Energy Investment in Developing and Emerging Market Economies
ISBN: 1536128899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536128895
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Climate change is perhaps among the most serious challenges that humankind has ever faced and perhaps the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. At the same time, clean unutilized energy resources around the world are available that could help remedy climate and environmental problems while also improving peoples lives. It is likely that most of the increased demand for energy in the future will be in the developing and emerging world. This is also where most unutilized clean energy sources are located. The challenge of climate change requires strong comprehensive and firm action from the international community. Clean energy projects tend to be large, capital intensive and long term. They require long term commitment from all the players involved as well as mutual trust. International financial institutions (IFIs), including the World Bank Group and regional development banks can play a key role in promoting the use of clean energy sources by facilitating clean energy investment in developing and emerging markets. This book focuses on those challenges, mainly using geothermal energy projects as examples, but also by providing an example of a large hydropower project to illustrate how the funding and risk mitigation instruments of IFIs, as well as national agencies such as export credit agencies (ECA)s, have been used to mobilize funds in a difficult investment environment. The book is divided into eleven chapters. Chapter One discusses the current global investment regime and the absence of an international organization for investments comparable to the World Trade Organization that focuses on cross border trade. Chapter Two examines the World Bank Group and its emphasis on loans instead of guarantees for capital mobilization. Chapter Three discusses international financial institutions, including regional development banks and their risk mitigation instruments. Chapter Four focuses on how IFIs can make more use of their instruments to support cross border clean energy projects in developing and emerging economies. Chapter Five assesses the effectiveness of the risk mitigation instruments used by the World Bank Group. Chapter Six analyses the upfront development costs associated with geothermal development and geothermal projects. Chapter Seven analyses the costs and benefits of deploying public-private partnerships for clean energy projects. Chapter Eight focuses on contested multilateralism and the recent establishment of new international financial institutions under Chinese leadership, i.e. the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development (BRICS) Bank. Chapter Nine examines Iceland with its geothermal cluster as well as how developing and emerging countries could learn from Icelands experience. Chapter Ten analyses selected cross border clean energy projects, including geothermal and hydropower, and shows how various funding and risk mitigation instruments have been used in practice. Chapter Eleven stresses the urgency for global action to address the climate crisis facing humankind. Finally, the concluding chapter shows how international financial institutions can be key instruments for successful global climate solutions. The book draws on the authors experience in three continents (Africa, Asia and Europe) as a staff member of the World Bank Group.

Автор: Hodgson Peter E
Название: Energy, The Environment And Climate Change
ISBN: 1848164165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848164161
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
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This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power.

Автор: Walter Leal Filho; Dinesh Surroop
Название: The Nexus: Energy, Environment and Climate Change
ISBN: 3319636111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319636115
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Part I: 1 Decarbonising the Finnish transport sector by 2050 - electricity or biofuels?.- 2 Modelling electricity generation from sugarcane production system using Systems Dynamics.- 3 Techno-Economic Viability of Husk Powered Systems for Rural Electrification in Uganda: Part I: Sustainability and Power Potential Aspects.- 4 Techno-Economic Viability of Husk Powered Systems for Rural Electrification in Uganda: Part II: Economic and Policy Aspects.- 5 Stand Alone Wind or Photovoltaic Power system? A holistic approach for system design and selection.- 6 Energie Hill Neu Wulmstorf - Reuse of a former landfill site for energy production from renewable energy.- 7 Assessing the energy potential of waste tyres by direct combustion, pyrolysis and gasification.- 8 A Review of Thermochemical Technologies for the conversion of Waste Biomass to Biofuel and Energy in Developing Countries.- 9 An Energy Balance Analysis of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) for Power Production in Fiji.- 10 Potential of Small Scale Power Generation from the Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Techniques in Fiji.- 11 Replacing fossil fuel with PV systems through technical capacity building in in Kenya.- 12 Design Technology for Bioenergy conversion of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste.- Part II: The Environment.- 13 Zymomonas mobilis - towards bacterial biofuel.- 14 Co-digestion of Lawn Grass with Cow Dung and Pig Manure under Anaerobic Condition.- 15 Application of different pre-treatment techniques for enhanced biogas production from lawn grass: A review.- 16 Design and operation of a single-stage plug-flow digester using organic wastes generated from University of Mauritius cafeteria.- 17 Possible Absorbent Regeneration in Biogas Purification and Upgrading: A Review.- 18 Wastewater biorefineries: integrating water treatment and value recovery.- Part III: Climate Change.- 19 Small is beautiful: Why a club approach is the way to go in climate change mitigation.- 20 Contextualizing of Organized Labour Position on Carbon Tax in South Africa using a Qualitative System Dynamics Model.- 21 A Step-by-Step Calculation of the Combined Margin Grid Emission Factor of the National Electricity System of Mauritius.- 22 Greenhouse gas emission reductions from solid waste management: Prognosis of Related Issues.- 23 Assessing the implementation of Eco-Driving in Mauritius - a Climate Change Mitigation Measure.- 24 1. The Nexus Energy, Environment and Climate Change: future trends.

Автор: Latin Howard A
Название: Climate Change Policy Failures
ISBN: 981435564X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814355643
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
Цена: 49630.00 T
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Описание: At the recent UN Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban, the developed nations promised hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid to help developing countries overcome global climate change dangers. The developed nations will need to spend many more billions to limit their own greenhouse gas pollution, the main cause of global warming and climate change. Will all this money and effort be wasted? This book argues that nearly all of the world's climate policy makers and expert advisors have been making tragic mistakes that ensure the failures of climate change mitigation attempts.The great majority of climate change programs, from American congressional bills to cap-and-trade economic incentive schemes to the Kyoto Protocol and other international treaties, rely on greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets that will prove "too little, too late" by deferring strict pollution controls too far into the future. The inadequate emissions-reduction measures also will not be able to bridge the gap between the highest priorities of developed and developing nations. Vast discharges of greenhouse gases authorized by weak emissions-reduction programs in the next several decades virtually guarantee that the cumulative concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will keep increasing while climate change continues to grow worse.Rather than adopting ineffectual emissions-reduction programs that cannot limit the cumulative concentration of greenhouse gases in the air, this book proposes a shift to a "clean" technology-replacement strategy that could support current lifestyles and expanding economic development without further damaging our climate. The only way to reduce the greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere enough to decrease climate change hazards is to replace large pollution sources as rapidly as feasible in as many industrial sectors and geographic regions as possible with "clean" alternative technologies, processes, and methods.

Автор: Diesendorf
Название: Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change
ISBN: 0415706149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415706148
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Renewable energy expert Mark Diesendorf issues a powerful challenge in this clear and comprehensive guide to the technology and policies we need to adopt to ensure an ecologically sustainable energy future for the planet.