Suchergebnisse

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

This paper explores the opportunities for a 'just transition' to low carbon and sustainable energy systems; one that addresses the current inequities in the distribution of energy benefits and their human and ecological costs. In order to prioritize policies that address energy poverty alleviation and sustainability concerns, national action and higher levels of international cooperation and coordination are required to steer public policy towards a broader range of public interests. This also implies re-directing the vast sums of private energy finance that currently serve a narrow set of interests. This paper considers how national and global energy governance must adapt and change to ensure a just transition to low carbon and sustainable energy systems. Creating a low carbon and sustainable energy transition will face significant challenges in overcoming opposition from a broad array of interest groups. The challenges of guiding a just transition are amplified by the relinquishing of government control over the energy sector in many countries and the current weak and fragmented state of global energy governance. The necessary changes in energy decision making will entail complex trade-offs and rebound effects that make strong, participatory and transparent institutional arrangements essential in order to govern such challenges equitably. In this respect, procedural justice is critical to achieving distributive justice and to creating a simultaneously rapid, sustainable and equitable transition to clean energy futures.

This paper explores the ways in which clean energy is being governed in India. It does so in order to improve our understanding of the potential and limitations of carbon finance in supporting lower carbon energy transitions, and to strengthen our appreciation of the role of politics in enabling or frustrating such endeavors. In particular we emphasize the importance of politics and the nature of India's political economy in understanding the development of energy sources and technologies defined as 'clean' both through the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and leading international actors. By considering the broad range of institutions that exert formal and informal political influence over how the benefits and costs of the CDM are distributed, the paper highlights shortcomings in the narrow way in which CDM governance has been conceptualized to date. This approach goes beyond analysis of technocratic aspects of governance – often reduced to a set of institutional design issues – in order to appreciate the political nature of the trade-offs that characterize debates about India's energy future and the relations of power which will determine how, and on whose terms, they are resolved.

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.