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Winds of Change

East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future

by Xiaodong Wang, Noureddine Berrah, Subodh Mathur, Ferdinand Vinuya ...

East Asia has experienced the fastest economic growth in the world over the last three decades, accompanied by a 10-fold gross domestic product increase and rapid urbanization. Energy consumption has more than tripled during this period and is expected to double over the next 20 years. This remarkable trend has led to twin energy challenges in the region—environmental sustainability and energy ... Read more

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East Asia has experienced the fastest economic growth in the world over the last three decades, accompanied by a 10-fold gross domestic product increase and rapid urbanization. Energy consumption has more than tripled during this period and is expected to double over the next 20 years. This remarkable trend has led to twin energy challenges in the region—environmental sustainability and energy
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The End of Growth

Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg ...

Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

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Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization
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The Price is Wrong

Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

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**"Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser."—Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a PipelineWhy the market will never solve the climate crisis**What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not ... Read more

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**"Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser."—Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a PipelineWhy the market will never solve the climate crisis**What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not
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Red Alert

How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life

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"I would caution readers to dismiss Stephen Leeb's warnings only at their peril." -- Thomas Kaplan, chairman, Tigris Financial GroupThe American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare:Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the Chinese are doing what they can to monopolize the world ... Read more

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"I would caution readers to dismiss Stephen Leeb's warnings only at their peril." -- Thomas Kaplan, chairman, Tigris Financial GroupThe American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare:Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the Chinese are doing what they can to monopolize the world
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Reinventing Prosperity

Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change

by Graeme Maxton, Jorgen Randers ...

"An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future." —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldThe biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we ... Read more

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"An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future." —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldThe biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we
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The New World Economy in 5 Trends

Investing in times of superinflation, hyperinnovation and climate transition

by Koen De Leus, Philippe Gijsels ...

The future is uncertain but for one thing: the global economy is in disarray. Investors, companies and governments must rethink their approach in light of raging inflation, the ongoing climate crisis and an ageing population. In addition, they have to deal with the highest mountain of debt ever accrued in peacetime, disruptive innovations and the effects of multiglobalisation.So much is happening ... Read more

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The future is uncertain but for one thing: the global economy is in disarray. Investors, companies and governments must rethink their approach in light of raging inflation, the ongoing climate crisis and an ageing population. In addition, they have to deal with the highest mountain of debt ever accrued in peacetime, disruptive innovations and the effects of multiglobalisation.So much is happening
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The Postcatastrophe Economy

Rebuilding America and Avoiding the Next Bubble

by Eric Janszen ...

How government and business can work together to secure our economic future.The 2008 crisis was just the beginning; according to sought-after analyst Eric Janszen, an even bigger financial catastrophe is imminent. Inclined to disbelieve him? He predicted the last two busts months before they happened.Our problems, according to Janszen, are rooted in the flaws of the debt-driven FIRE economy ... Read more

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How government and business can work together to secure our economic future.The 2008 crisis was just the beginning; according to sought-after analyst Eric Janszen, an even bigger financial catastrophe is imminent. Inclined to disbelieve him? He predicted the last two busts months before they happened.Our problems, according to Janszen, are rooted in the flaws of the debt-driven FIRE economy
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Solar Revolution

The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

by Travis Bradford ...

An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy—in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells—is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects.In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues—on the basis of standard business and ... Read more

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An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy—in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells—is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects.In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues—on the basis of standard business and
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Digest of the Handbook on Electricity Markets - International Edition

2022, #9

by EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform Project ...

Series Book 9 - 2022
This digest was prepared by：Jean-Michel Glachant, Florence School of Regulation andNicolò Rossetto, Florence School of Regulationwith generous support from the authors of the Handbook on Electricity Markets.LEGAL DISCLAIMERChapter 1 and the book cover are included here in this digest with the permission from Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.The information and views set out in this Digest are those of ... Read more

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This digest was prepared by：Jean-Michel Glachant, Florence School of Regulation andNicolò Rossetto, Florence School of Regulationwith generous support from the authors of the Handbook on Electricity Markets.LEGAL DISCLAIMERChapter 1 and the book cover are included here in this digest with the permission from Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.The information and views set out in this Digest are those of
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Climate Change and the World Bank Group: Phase I I - The Challenge of Low-Carbon Development

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This study from the Independent Evaluation Group draws lessons for development and climate change mitigation from the World Bank Group's far-reaching portfolio of projects in energy forestry transport coal power and technology transfer. Reviewing what has worked what hasn?t and why the evaluation?s key findings include:Energy efficiency can offer countries direct economic returns that dwarf those ... Read more

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This study from the Independent Evaluation Group draws lessons for development and climate change mitigation from the World Bank Group's far-reaching portfolio of projects in energy forestry transport coal power and technology transfer. Reviewing what has worked what hasn?t and why the evaluation?s key findings include:Energy efficiency can offer countries direct economic returns that dwarf those
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Digest of the Handbook on Electricity Markets - China Edition

2022, #9

by EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform Project ...

Series Book 9 - 2022
This digest was prepared by：Jean-Michel Glachant, Florence School of Regulation andNicolò Rossetto, Florence School of RegulationMichael G. Pollitt, University of Cambridge (Takeaways from the Handbook on Electricity Markets for Power Sector Reform in China)with generous support from the authors of the Handbook on Electricity Markets.LEGAL DISCLAIMERChapter 1 and the book cover are included here ... Read more

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This digest was prepared by：Jean-Michel Glachant, Florence School of Regulation andNicolò Rossetto, Florence School of RegulationMichael G. Pollitt, University of Cambridge (Takeaways from the Handbook on Electricity Markets for Power Sector Reform in China)with generous support from the authors of the Handbook on Electricity Markets.LEGAL DISCLAIMERChapter 1 and the book cover are included here
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Greening the Global Economy

by Robert Pollin ...

Series series Boston Review Originals
A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030.Achieving the target goals will be highly challenging. Yet in Greening the Global Economy, economist Robert Pollin ... Read more

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A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030.Achieving the target goals will be highly challenging. Yet in Greening the Global Economy, economist Robert Pollin
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