Titel: Responding to Global Warming : The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy
Verlag: Zed Books, Limited
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1856491625
ISBN-13: 9781856491624
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good

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With the Framework Convention on Climate Change, action to prevent possible global warming is on the agenda. But the obtacles appear daunting. Peter Read argues that the problem can be tackled, however, at a much more affordable cost than commonly realized, and in ways likely both to provide incentives to energy corporations and to improve the development prospects of many countries in the South. The key lies in a multi-disciplinary policy perspective that integrates engineering, economics and decision theory. The author's highly innovative argument proposes a novel Tradeable Absorption Obligation to wean energy corporations onto sustainable fuel coupled with deploying recent biomass energy technology advances - notable new methods of intensive fuelwood production, gas turbine power generation and ethanol fermentation. This strategy opens up the prospect of controlling the level of the main global warming gas not simply by lowering CO2 emissions but by radically increasing CO2 absorption.

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Dr Peter Read is a Cambridge and LSE-educated engineer and economist who now specialises in energy economics at Massey University, New Zealand.

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