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Written by one of the leading experts in the field, Paul Ekins, Stopping Climate Change provides a comprehensive overview of what is required to achieve Real Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, and negative emissions thereafter, which is the only way to stop human-induced climate change.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why real zero?
Chapter 2: The global context and pathways to net zero
Chapter 3 Energy efficiency, the 'first fuel'
Chapter 4: Kicking the addiction to fossil fuels
Chapter 5: The future is electric
Chapter 6: Filling the gaps with bioenergy and hydrogen
Chapter 7: Carbon capture, use, storage and removal, and geoengineering
Chapter 8: The great enablers: Digitalisation, the circular economy and critical minerals for the clean energy transition
Chapter 9: Decarbonisation of buildings, transport and industry
Chapter 10: Feeding the world, reducing waste
Chapter 11: Economics of climate mitigation
Chapter 12: Policy and delivery
Chapter 13: Conclusions
Index
About the author
Paul Ekins is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at the Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London (UCL). For 14 years he was a Co- Director of the UK Energy Research Centre. He was also the special adviser to the joint Houses of Parliament on the UK Climate Change Bill. At the EU level he was a member of the High- Level Panel of the European Commission's European Decarbonisation Pathways Initiative and was Vice Chair in 2012- 13 of the then Environment Commissioner's Expert Economists' Group on Resource Efficiency. He is a member of the International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and was a Co- Chair of UNEP's flagship publication, the sixth Global Environment Outlook, published in 2019. In 1994 he received UNEP's Global 500 Award 'for outstanding environmental achievement'. In 2015 he received an OBE from the UK Government 'for services to environmental policy'.
Summary
Written by one of the leading experts in the field, Paul Ekins, Stopping Climate Change provides a comprehensive overview of what is required to achieve Real Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, and negative emissions thereafter, which is the only way to stop human-induced climate change.
