Challenges and Solutions for Climate Change

• Main Authors: Gaast, Wytze van der (Author), Begg, Katherine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Renewable energy resources.; Climate change.; Management.; Industrial management.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Sustainable Development.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Energy Economics.

The latest scientific knowledge on climate change indicates that higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere through unchecked emissions will provoke severe climate change and ocean acidification threatening environmental structures on which humanity relies. Climate change therefore poses...

Table of Contents:

• Technology Transfer in International Energy and Climate Policy
• Assessing Countries’ Energy Service Needs and Technologies
• Energy Service and Technology Needs Assessments in Case Study Countries
• Technology Transfer Aspects: Mapping Markets for Technologies
• Low-Carbon Technology Market Mapping in the Case-Study Countries
• Accelerating Technology Development, Deployment and Diffusion.