Putting the Genie Back: Solving the Climate and Energy Dilemma
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XK4LZV3 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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At its most ambitious, the Paris Agreement implies a transition within theglobal energy system such that carbon dioxide emissions fall rapidly from 40billion tonnes per annum in 2016, to net-zero by the middle of the century. Yetour fossil fuel based energy system which ushered in the Industrial Revolutionnearly 200 years ago continues to grow and evolve even as new sources of energycome into the market and compete.The principal economic instrument for change is clear and has been for over twodecades, but in 2017 only a fraction of the global economy actively employsgovernment led carbon pricing policies and within that only a handful ofsystems operate at a level commensurate with the pace and scale of change thatis necessary.As deployment of new energy technologies accelerates, can solutions be found tocover the full range of services delivered by fossil fuels and can warming belimited to the agreed global goals? Putting the Genie Back explores the climateissue from its very beginnings through to the end of end of the 21st Centuryand looks in depth at the transition challenge we collectively face.. T
A clear-eyed view of the possible." --Bob Perciasepe, President of C2ES and former EPA Deputy Administrator . Hone then pragmatically describes solutions, if our combined political will can be summoned to the task. "Putting the Genie Back is a sobering and insightful look at our global climate challenge and how we arrived at this point