Challenges, Opportunties and Solutions

"Climate change is the planet's foremost challenge. The energy industry is responsible for most greenhouse-gas emissions and, consequently must play a significant part in climate-change mitigation."

Heikki Raumolin, Senior Adviser, Generation Nuclear, Fortum

Energy & Climate Change Issues: The World Energy Book is a geopolitical and technical guide to the challenges and commercial opportunities of global warming. It is the first book to look at all plausible remedies, written by the industry people most able to deliver them. Its articles, case studies, and high-level analysis follow an easily comprehensible, practical structure.

Sustainable Energy Sources

"The power sector must provide enough electricity to meet rising demand while also playing its part in combating climate change – requiring severe reductions in CO2 emissions."

Kevin Gould and Kjetil Røine, Research and Advisory, Point Carbon

Energy & Climate Change Issues: The World Energy Book consists of 30 articles that include detailed analysis of each of the major energy sources – and their likely contribution to climate change. It looks at the technologies that will help to mitigate climate change, evaluates the changing regulatory climate, and examines the newly created carbon markets. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the future of sustainable energy.

Legistation and Regulation

"There is a growing sense that US policymakers will soon pass national climate-change legislation."

Truman Semans, Director for Markets and Business Strategy, The Pew Center on Global Climate Change

The authors are leading practitioners from ABB, Practical Action, New Energy Finance, the Egyptian New & Renewable Energy Authority, Brenco (Brazilian Renewable Energy), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the Energy Commission of Nigeria, the US Energy Information Administration, The World Bank, Ernst & Young, Wood Mackenzie, Deloitte & Touche, Verbundnetz Gas, Fortum, Chatham House, Beckman Institute and Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Vestas Wind Systems, AWS Truewind, FreeStream, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Point Carbon, Petroleum Economist, Vattenfall, RWE, the European Climate Exchange, Areva, Bioverda, Cap Gemini, and IBM.

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