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Transforming energy, solving climate change with technology Policy, Anthony Patt

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Transforming energy

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Anthony Patt

Cambridge books online

solving climate change with technology Policy

Climate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advise us that we need to make major changes to our lifestyles, and our governments need to agree globally binding treaties and implement market instruments like carbon taxes. This advice is a mistake: it treats technological innovation as being at the periphery of the climate policy challenge, whereas it needs to be at its core; we will phase out emissions when and only when the technologies to replace fossil fuels are good enough, and policies need - quickly - to support these new technologies directly. Anyone with an interest in climate change and energy policy will find this book forward-thinking and invaluable. Professional policy-makers, climate and energy policy researchers, and students of energy and public policy, economics, political science, environmental studies, and geography will find this book especially stimulating--, Provided by Publisher

PART 1 - SETTING THE STAGE 1 - From optimism to pessimism and back again 2 - The natural and social science of climate change 3 - The solution space and its distractions PART 2 - FAILED STRATEGIES TO REDUCE EMISSIONS 4 - Getting the prices right 5 - Striking a global bargain 6 - Changing the way we live PART 3 - SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO MOVE US AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS 7 - Theories of transitions 8 - Strategic technologies 9 - Energiewende in the German power sector 10 - Policies beyond power 11 - Pulling it all together