Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals: Global and Regional 100% Renewable Energy Scenarios with Non-energy GHG Pathways for +1.5 DegreesC and +2 DegreesC

This open-access book provides detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions, based on state-of-the-art scenario modeling. It covers all the elements essential to achieving the ambitious climate mitigation targets set out in the Paris Climate Agreement, including sectoral implementation pathways, non-energy greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios, and impact on employment and mineral and resource requirements. It demonstrates that the goals of the Paris Agreement are achievable and feasible with current technology and are beneficial in economic and employment terms.

Format: Hardback
Length: 491 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2019
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive open-access book offers detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, both globally and across ten geographical regions. Through state-of-the-art scenario modeling, it provides the essential missing link between renewable energy targets and the necessary measures to attain them. By bringing together the latest research in climate science, renewable energy technology, employment, and resource impacts, the book breaks new ground by covering all the elements essential to achieving the ambitious climate mitigation targets outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement.

For instance, sectoral implementation pathways, with a special emphasis on differences between developed and developing countries and regional conditions, offer tools for implementing the scenarios globally and domestically. Non-energy greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios define a sustainable pathway for land-use change and the agricultural sector. Furthermore, the results of the impact of the scenarios on employment and mineral and resource requirements provide valuable insight into economic and resource management implications.

The book clearly demonstrates that the goals of the Paris Agreement are achievable and feasible with current technology and offer significant economic and employment benefits. It is an essential reading for anyone with responsibility for implementing renewable energy or climate targets internationally or domestically, including climate policy negotiators, policy-makers at all levels of government, businesses with renewable energy commitments, researchers, and the renewable energy industry.

Part 2 of this title can be found at this Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99177-7

Weight: 1070g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030058425
Edition number: 1st ed. 2019