Editors:
- Brings together techniques and analyses that point the way toward a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a limit to global warming of less than 2°C
- Supports the Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the Impacts of a Global Warming of 1.5°C (May 2018)
- Offers a global perspective with contributions from all parts of the world
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 64)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Radical Transformation of the Global Energy System
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The Diversity of the National Energy Transitions in Europe
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The Decarbonisation Pathways Outside Europe
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About this book
This book presents the energy system roadmaps necessary to limit global temperature increase to below 2°C, in order to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change. It provides a unique perspective on and critical understanding of the feasibility of a well-below-2°C world by exploring energy system pathways, technology innovations, behaviour change and the macro-economic impacts of achieving carbon neutrality by mid-century. The transformative changes in the energy transition are explored using energy systems models and scenario analyses that are applied to various cities, countries and at a global scale to offer scientific evidence to underpin complex policy decisions relating to climate change mitigation and interrelated issues like energy security and the energy–water nexus. It includes several chapters directly related to the Nationally Determined Contributions proposed in the context of the recent Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
In summary, the book collates a range of concrete analyses at different scales from around the globe, revisiting the roles of countries, cities and local communities in pathways to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make a well-below-2°C world a reality.
A valuable source of information for energy modellers in both the industry and public sectors, it provides a critical understanding of both the feasibility of roadmaps to achieve a well-below-2°C world, and the diversity and wide applications of energy systems models. Encompassing behaviour changes; technology innovations; macro-economic impacts; and other environmental challenges, such as water, it is also of interest to energy economists and engineers, as well as economic modellers working in the field of climate change mitigation.
Keywords
- Energy Systems Model
- Renewable Energy Technology
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Climate Change
- Innovation
- Global temperature increase
- roadmap to climate change mitigation
- below 2 degree climate roadmap
- limiting warming to below 2 degrees
- temperature rise below 2 degrees
- prevent 2 degrees of global warming
- well below 2 degree world
- Climate change management
- energy security
Editors and Affiliations
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Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES), Athens, Greece
George Giannakidis
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DTU Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Kenneth Karlsson
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Eneris Environment Energy Consultants, Madrid, Spain
Maryse Labriet
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MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Brian Ó Gallachóir
About the editors
The authors are part of the Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program (ETSAP), one of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs) that underpin the efforts of the International Energy Agency (IEA) to support innovation for energy security, economic growth and environmental protection.
The IEA-ETSAP-TCP is a unique network of energy modelling teams from approx. 70 countries that has operated for over 40 years. The network members cooperates to establish, maintain, develop and expand a consistent multi-country energy / economy / environment / engineering (4E) analytical capability, mainly based on the MARKAL/TIMES family of models. These bottom-up techno-economic models have been used to build and compare long term energy pathways and to provide in-depth national, multi-country, and global energy and environmental analyses.
George Giannakidis worked as a senior consultant in the Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Savingin Greece over the past twenty years. His scientific interests include energy systems analysis, energy economics and energy policy. He is particularly interested in the evaluation of the required energy policies to deliver large scale penetration of renewable energies. He has participated as a project partner and coordinator in a number of EU funded projects on energy planning and on the penetration of renewable energy sources into the energy system. He has also participated in the formulation of the Greek National Action Plans for energy efficiency, cogeneration of heat and power, and renewable energy sources. He was formerly the Operating Agent of IEA-ETSAP for five years and is currently the Project Head of IEA-ETSAP.
Kenneth Karlsson is leading the Energy System Analysis group at DTU Management Engineering at DTU Denmark. His research focus is on modelling of energy systems and the links to environment, economy and resources. He is involved in developing energy system optimization models on national, regional and global scales with a focus on high shares of renewable energy. He has been involved as an expert in most Danish commissions analysing the future energy system and was recently in charge of developing a new TIMES model for the Danish Energy Agency. Kenneth is currently the Operating Agent IEA-ETSAP and is one of the initiative takers behind the new Energy Modelling Platform Europe, EMP-E.
Maryse Labriet is director of Eneris Environment Energy Consultants, Spain, and faculty lecturer on climate change, energy and development at the EOI-Business School of Madrid. She is one of the co-developers of the World TIMES Integrated Assessment Model (TIAM) made available within IEA-ETSAP, which she has used to assess global energy, technology and climate outlooks in international projects and modeling exercises such as the Energy Modeling Forum. Working at the intersection of research and consulting, her interests focuson advancing and sharing knowledge on low carbon and climate resilient energy policies, assessing energy systems and supporting decision-makers in the implementation and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goal on energy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Limiting Global Warming to Well Below 2 °C: Energy System Modelling and Policy Development
Editors: George Giannakidis, Kenneth Karlsson, Maryse Labriet, Brian Ó Gallachóir
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74424-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74423-0Published: 01 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08989-4Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74424-7Published: 31 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2195-1284
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 423
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy Systems, Climate Change Management and Policy, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Security