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Substantial increase of the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix -- International cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology -- Promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology -- Expanded infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services in developing countries

Access to Energy at Household Level -- Access to Modern Energy Services for the Promotion of Sustainable Development -- Access to Renewable Energy Resources: A Gender and Inclusivity Perspective -- Affordable and Clean Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy -- Alternative Energy: Sources and Future Trends -- Assessing the Electricity Sector Reform Paradigm -- Available Energy: Powering the Energetic and Societal Needs of Sustainable Communities -- Bioenergy Alternatives for the Disposal of Carbon Oxides -- Biofuel and Biogas Policies: Economic, Regulatory and Sustainability Challenges -- Biofuel Development: Institutional Design Across the World -- Centralized Versus Decentralized Electrification Pathways -- Challenges of Reliable Power Supply with Emphasis on Renewables -- Charcoal Production Technology: Discussion about Energy Waste -- Civilian Uses and Challenges of Nuclear Energy -- Clean Energy Solutions and Sustainable Development -- Community Engagement, Customer Engagement, and Changes in Behavior.

This edited book is a comprehensive collection of chapters on various clean energy technology such as solar energy, waste biomass as energy, hydro-electricity generation, biodiesel production from biomass and strategies to cater the demand of clean renewable energy. Clean energy technologies also enhance economic growth by increasing the supply of energy demand and tackling environmental challenges and their impacts due to the use of other conventional sources of energy. The conventional/non-conventional energy production methods are efficient but it has adverse effects on environment and human health. As environmental concerns are not avoidable therefore the necessity of clean energy production comes in to the picture. The clean energy can be produced by different wastes which are caused for the environmental pollution. This book covers various aspects of new and renewable clean energy production technology and its utilization in different fields. This is a useful reading material for students and researchers involved in clean energy study.

1 Brief introduction to first, second and third generation of biofuels -- 2 Renewable biofuel sources as bioclean energy potential and challenges -- 3 Metabolic rewiring and cultivation optimization for photosynthetic biofule production in cynobacteria -- 4 Role of enzymes in biofuel production: recent developments and challenges -- 5 Engineered strains in the development of the biofuel industry -- 6 Genetic Engineering: an optimism for sustainable biofuel production -- 7 Algal-based biofuel production; opportunities, challenges, and prospects -- 8 SAPO-34 zeolite and membranes for biogas purification -- 9 Nanotechnology based biofuel production -- 10 Advancement of Nanoparticles in Gaseous Biofuel Production -- 11 Nano catalyzed transesterification of thumba oil for biodiesel production using hydrodynamic cavitation -- 12 Nanotechnology: Use of conventional methods in biofuel production -- 13 An insight into nanomaterials and its used in biofuel production -- 14 An overview of nanostructures and its application in biofuel production -- 15 Production of biodiesel from the bacterial lipid of sewage sludge: Versatile future of bioenergy in developing countries -- 16 Environmental Impact and Economic Benefits of Biofuel Production -- 17 Advanced anaerobic processing of bioresources for production of clean and sustainable gaseous biofuels -- 18 Techno economic analysis of lignocellulosic based biofuels: an approach towards a practical biorefinery.

I. The Approaching Energy Disaster -- 1. What Is Energy? -- 2. What Part Does Energy Play in Our Lives? -- 3. How Do We Get Our Energy Right Now? -- 4. Shall We Run Out of Energy in Our Time? -- 5. How Long Does It Take to Develop and Build Up a New Technology? -- II. Alternatives: What Could Replace Our Exhausting Fuels? -- 6. The Dream of Cheap, Clean Atomic Energy -- 7. Fission Reactors-What Can Go Wrong -- 8. Dreaming About the Future: Abundant Clean Energy from Atomic Fusion -- 9. The Most Available Energy Source: The Sun -- 10. Converting Solar Energy to Useful Fuel -- 11. Household Energy from the Sun -- 12. Transport and Industry Run On Electricity and Hydrogen -- 13. Tides, Geothermal Heat, and the Big Winds -- 14. Energy Storage and Transmission -- III. The Hydrogen Economy -- 15. Methods of Mass-Producing Hydrogen -- 16. The Storage of Abundant Clean Energy -- 17. Beyond the Hydrogen Economy: Some Futuristic Ideas -- IV. Extrascientific Considerations -- 18. The Politics of Survival -- 19. Answers.

The 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) shifted the nature of the political economy challenge associated with achieving a global emissions trajectory that is consistent with a climate. The shifts generated by CoP21 place country decision-making and country policies at centre stage. Under moderately optimistic assumptions concerning the vigour with which CoP21 objectives are pursued, nearly every country in the world will set about to design and implement the most promising and locally relevant policies for achieving their agreed contribution to global mitigation. These policies are virtually certain to vary dramatically across countries. In short, the world stands at the cusp of an unprecedented era of policy experimentation in driving a clean energy transition. This book steps into this new world of broad-scale and locally relevant policy experimentation. The chapters focus on the political economy of clean energy transition with an emphasis on specific issues encountered in both developed and developing countries. Lead authors contribute a broad diversity of experience drawn from all major regions of the world, representing a compendium of what has been learned from recent initiatives, mostly (but not exclusively) at country level, to reduce GHG emissions. As this new era of experimentation dawns, their contributions are both relevant and timely.

"As a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, irrevocable loss has been experienced in the personal circles that each of us identifies as family/friends and in the intersecting and rippling circles that expand from there. This book has been written in the margins of grief, and in the midst of the real-time widow work of making sure my sons who tragically and brutally lost their beloved father before his time somehow didn't shatter under the weight of sadness. But, writing a foreword for a book that is inextricably interwoven with profound loss also comes with a sense of gratitude for the courage and loyalty of true friends, and for the tireless advocates who have spoken out for climate justice but are now silenced."--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Guiding Principles for Energy Sector Operations: ADB Strategic Framework and Energy Policy -- 1.2 Global Commitments -- 2 Conceptual Framework, Scope, and Limitations -- 3 Methodology and Data Sources -- 4 Elements and Approaches of the ADB Clean Energy Program -- 4.1 Asia Solar Energy Initiative -- 4.2 Carbon Capture and Storage -- 4.3 Quantum Leap in Wind -- 4.4 Small Wind Initiative -- 4.5 Energy for All Initiative -- 4.6 Asia Energy Efficiency Accelerator -- 4.7 Low-Carbon Technology Exchange -- 4.8 Asia Climate Change and Clean Energy Venture Capital Initiative -- 4.9 Leveraging Clean Energy Development -- 4.10 Knowledge Sharing and Partnerships -- 5 The ADB Clean Energy Program, 2008-2018 -- 6 Clean Energy Program Results, 2008-2018 -- 7 Findings and Conclusion -- Appendixes -- 1 Clean Energy Projects (2008-2018) -- 2 ADB Projects with Energy Access Component (2008-2018) -- 3 Solar Projects Supported Under Asia Solar Energy Initiative (2010-2018) -- References.

"This book systematically constructs theories of clean energy diplomacy in the context of the changing international strategic landscape of energy and climate. It aims to explain the scientific connotations and innovative significance of clean energy diplomacy. The book focuses on analyzing how the development of renewable energy, including wind, solar, and biomass, plays out in the evolution of the international power system. It also touches upon energy efficiency and complementary energy technologies. This book integrates the studies of traditional energy and environmental diplomacy, and defines its connotations and extensions from the perspective of major country diplomatic strategy. Based on the latest developments of international clean energy diplomacy, the author also discusses China's strategic option of clean energy diplomacy in the broad context of the profound changes in global energy and climate governance. As a new diplomatic model to enhance national competitive advantages, clean energy diplomacy has attracted the attention of many countries. This book will therefore be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable energy and environmental management, environmental politics and policy, and those interested in the low-carbon economy in general"--

This book capitalizes on two hot topics: the Low Carbon Emission Development Strategies and climate change in Asian cities. There is resurgence in making policies to investigate more aspects of the energy-environment spectrum for the global energy market in the future. This book helps the policy makers and researchers to understand which actions should be taken to reduce the environmental impacts of economic activities in different regions in Asia. The clean energy strategy proposed in this book refers to the development and implementation of policies and strategies that simultaneously contribute to addressing climate change and solving local environmental problems, which also have other development impacts. It provides insights to a wide audience on successful ways to promote, design and implement the clean energy policies in Asian cities. To determine the global actions, it is necessary to make breakthroughs by promoting further research and to present scenarios that achieve Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) goals without dependence upon fossil fuels. The scenarios and case studies discussed in this book are helpful to plan for the SDGs, where various objectives have to be achieved at the same time. The UN 2030 development agenda needs innovative planning to achieve multiple goals with limited resources and generate synergy among sectors. This book will be one of the first books available on this subject.