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Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Composed of twenty-eight essays, this volume is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ‘big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies. This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis. This is the author-approved edition of this Open Access title. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at http://www.openbookpublishers.

Environmental Studies --- finance --- governance --- climate change --- extraction --- social sciences --- case studies --- carbon emissions --- climate activism --- climate change frontline country --- climate change negotiation --- climate crisis --- paradigms

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Electricity Decentralization in the European Union: Towards Zero Carbon and Energy Transition, Second Edition examines progress in decentralization across the European Union, with each chapter focusing on developments and innovations in a specific country. Sections provide an overview of the current role and state of smart grids, the conceptualization of energy transition, and specific cases across all EU states. Across the chapters, regulatory frameworks are assessed to identify to what extent it is conducive to decentralization, with specific outcomes of decentralization covered in detail, including deployment of smart grids and meters, demand response, electric vehicles, and storage.The book highlights how specific EU member states are progressing towards deployment of these tools and technologies, along with the specific needs and regulatory barriers in each and recommendations for how regulation can be more encouraging. In addition, electricity interconnections in the EU are considered as a vital step towards decentralization in order to boost energy security and energy efficiency. Finally, the book includes a detailed examination of data protection concerns that arise from the advent of new technologies that collect personal information, such as smart grids, assessing current regulation on data protection and identifying areas for improvement, as well as innovative finance options for sustainable energy.Analyzes the regulatory environment with regard to decentralizationExplores new tools and technologies to facilitate decentralization, along with current progress in eachAddresses barriers and suggests improvements across tools, technologies and regulations

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Carbon emissions reached an all-time high in 2018, when global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels increased by about 2.7%, after a 1.6% increase in 2017. Thus, we need to pay special attention to carbon emissions and work out possible solutions if we still want to meet the targets of the Paris climate agreement. This Special Issue collects 16 carbon emissions-related papers (including 5 that are carbon tax-related) and 4 energy-related papers using various methods or models, such as the input-output model, decoupling analysis, life cycle impact analysis (LCIA), relational analysis model, generalized Divisia index model (GDIM), forecasting model, three-indicator allocation model, mathematical programming, real options model, multiple linear regression, etc. The research studies come from China, Taiwan, Brazil, Thailand, and United States. These researches involved various industries such as agricultural industry, transportation industry, power industry, tire industry, textile industry, wave energy industry, natural gas industry, and petroleum industry. Although this Special Issue does not fully solve our concerns, it still provides abundant material for implementing energy conservation and carbon emissions reduction. However, there are still many issues regarding the problems caused by global warming that require research.

shale gas --- n/a --- Tapio’s model --- 1)) --- tea --- VARIMAX-ECM model --- wave energy converter --- error correction mechanism model --- low-carbon agriculture --- hybrid ship power systems --- greenhouse gas emissions --- STIRPAT model --- textile industry --- carbon tax --- refined oil distribution --- pushback control --- takeoff rate --- economic growth --- generalized regression neural network (GRNN) --- Industry 4.0 --- HOMER software --- population growth --- Markov forecasting model --- household consumption --- life cycle assessment --- green quality management --- agricultural-related sectors --- non-energy uses of fossil fuels --- investment under uncertainty --- CO2 emissions forecasting --- decoupling analysis --- CO2 emissions --- quotas allocation --- carbon price fluctuation --- final energy consumption --- ethylene supply --- household CO2 emissions (HCEs) --- green transportation --- Li-ion battery --- Activity-Based Costing (ABC) --- decoupling elasticity --- causal factors --- renewable energy --- per capita household CO2 emissions (PHCEs) --- shipping --- input–output model --- carbon intensity target --- climate change --- Monte Carlo method --- CLA Model --- energy intensity --- total carbon emissions --- mathematical programming --- sustainable development --- Generalized Divisia Index --- carbon trading --- influence factor --- tire industry --- socio-economic scenarios --- hybrid genetic algorithm --- economic growth and the environment --- non-linear programming --- environmental impact --- capacity expansion --- product-mix decision model --- influencing factors --- scenario forecast --- energy structure --- China --- carbon emissions --- inventory routing problem --- green manufacturing --- fairness --- power industry --- activity-based costing (ABC) --- aircraft --- electric power industry --- taxi time --- real options analysis --- carbon footprint --- LT-ARIMAXS model --- carbon intensity --- gray model (GM (1 --- reducing carbon emissions --- sustainable agriculture --- long-term --- Tapio's model --- input-output model

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This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable and sustainable energy for all citizens, focusing on households as the main unit of analysis. The book revolves around ten contributions that each summarise national trends, socio-material characteristics, and policy responses to contemporary energy issues affecting householders in different countries, and provides good practice examples for designing and implementing sustainable energy initiatives. Prominent concerns include reducing carbon emissions, energy poverty, sustainable consumption, governance, practices, innovations and sustainable lifestyles. The opening and closing contributions consider European level energy policy, dominant and alternative problem framings and similarities and differences between European countries in relation to reducing household energy use. Overall, the book is a valuable resource for researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and others interested in sustainable energy perspectives. .

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The world steel industry is strongly based on coal/coke in ironmaking, resulting in huge carbon dioxide emissions corresponding to approximately 7% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions. As the world is experiencing a period of imminent threat owing to climate change, the steel industry is also facing a tremendous challenge in next decades. This themed issue makes a survey on the current situation of steel production, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions, as well as cross-sections of the potential methods to decrease CO2 emissions in current processes via improved energy and materials efficiency, increasing recycling, utilizing alternative energy sources, and adopting CO2 capture and storage. The current state, problems and plans in the two biggest steel producing countries, China and India are introduced. Generally contemplating, incremental improvements in current processes play a key role in rapid mitigation of specific emissions, but finally they are insufficient when striving for carbon neutral production in the long run. Then hydrogen and electrification are the apparent solutions also to iron and steel production. The book gives a holistic overview of the current situation and challenges, and an inclusive compilation of the potential technologies and solutions for the global CO2 emissions problem.

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