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020 _a9781139162210 (ebook)
020 _z9781107024069 (hardback)
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050 0 0 _aTJ808
_b.P38 2015
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100 1 _aPatt, Anthony G.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTransforming energy :
_bsolving climate change with technology policy /
_cAnthony Patt, ETH Zurich.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2015.
300 _a1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aClimate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advise us that we need to make major changes to our lifestyles, and our governments need to agree globally binding treaties and implement market instruments like carbon taxes. This advice is a mistake: it treats technological innovation as being at the periphery of the climate policy challenge, whereas it needs to be at its core; we will phase out emissions when and only when the technologies to replace fossil fuels are good enough, and policies need - quickly - to support these new technologies directly. Anyone with an interest in climate change and energy policy will find this book forward-thinking and invaluable. Professional policy-makers, climate and energy policy researchers, and students of energy and public policy, economics, political science, environmental studies, and geography will find this book especially stimulating.
650 0 _aRenewable energy sources.
650 0 _aEnergy conservation.
650 0 _aClimate change mitigation.
650 0 _aEnergy policy.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107024069
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139162210
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