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“miguel mendonca”

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  • Powering the Green Economy

    The Feed-in Tariff Handbook

    by Miguel Mendonca, David Jacobs, Benjamin K. Sovacool ...
    Effective policy is vital for creating greener economies, new jobs and industries, for securing energy supplies and for protecting the climate and environment. As renewable energy is fundamental to achieving all of these objectives, it too needs the best possible policy to drive it. Feed-in tariffs have proven to deliver the fastest, most cost-effective and inclusive deployment, by allowing anyone ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Feed-in Tariffs

    Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy

    by Miguel Mendonça ...
    A feed-in tariff is a renewable energy law that obliges energy suppliers to buy electricity produced from renewable resources at a fixed price, usually over a fixed period - even from householders. These legal guarantees ensure investment security, and the support of all viable renewable energy technologies. Supporters argue that the feed-in model, if implemented effectively around the world, ... Read more

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  • Afterburn

    Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon futureClimate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play" solution, author Richard Heinberg ... Read more

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  • Our Renewable Future

    Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

    by Richard Heinberg, David Fridley ...
    One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Building the Impact Economy

    Our Future, Yea or Nay

    by Maximilian Martin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book develops a comprehensive framework for creating sustainable new business approaches on a massive scale. It relates the power of entrepreneurship, investment and technology to four areas in which progress is urgently needed to get out of the world’s current impasse. These are: game-changing innovations in companies; a way forward for the global fashion industry that reconciles ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Nexus: Energy, Environment and Climate Change

    Edited by Dinesh Surroop, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on the water–energy–climate nexus, which can be used to improve energy security and quality of life for millions of people in developing countries. It enhances the reader’s understanding of the link between energy and climate, through the development of new approaches to and methods for energy generation, energy use, and climate change adaptation and resilience.By presenting case ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Enabling Environment

    A Worm's Eye View of Environmental Finance

    by Srinivasan Sunderasan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Enabling Environment is as real as it gets. The global commons are jointly owned and their inhabitants are jointly obligated to ensure their preservation. In the face of protracted negotiations, convoluted documentation, discord, and incessant bickering among scientists, activists, pressure groups of various hues, politicians and negotiators, very often the people on the ground are ignored or ... Read more

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  • Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment

    by Iea-Retd ...
    Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment provides insight to policy makers and market actors as to the ways that new and innovative business models (and/or policy measures) can stimulate the deployment of renewable energy technologies (RET) and energy efficiency (EE) measures in this field. This project was initiated and funded by the IEA Implementing Agreement for Renewable ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $59.99 USD

  • The European Commission's Energy and Climate Policy

    A Climate for Expertise?

    by J. Dreger ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2011

    Special Edition of Jointed Symposium of Kyoto University Global COE "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming" and Ajou University BK21

    Edited by Takeshi Yao ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System.” Its aim is to establish an international education and research platform to foster educators, researchers, and policy makers who can develop technologies and propose policies for establishing a CO2 ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Investing in Low-Carbon Energy Systems

    Implications for Regional Economic Cooperation

    Edited by Venkatachalam Anbumozhi, Kaliappa Kalirajan, Fukunari Kimura, Xianbin Yao ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development. The book begins with an overview of the state of the art policies in emerging economies, which provides a starting point for understanding the concept of low-carbon green growth. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Biofuels: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Global Warming

    Next Generation Biofuels and Role of Biotechnology

    Edited by Ashwani Kumar, Shinjiro Ogita, Yuan-Yeu Yau ...
    This timely book is a compilation of edited articles by distinguished international scientists discussing global warming, its causes as well as present and future solutions. Social and economic growth at global level is measured in terms of GDP, which requires energy inputs generally based on fossil fuel resources. These, however, are major contributors to increasing levels of CO2, causing 15 ... Read more

    $152.09 USD