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Cherian, Anilla

Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide

Cherian, Anilla - Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide, ebook

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Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide focuses attention on two urgent global development challenges faced by the UN and its member states: access to sustainable energy for all, and global climate change. This book presents compelling evidence about an often neglected aspect of the energy-climate change-development nexus faced by millions of poor: problems caused by the use of inefficient and polluting energy sources, and the lack of access to sustainable energy services.

Based on a detailed examination of major UN global climate change and sustainable development negotiated outcomes over the course of several decades, this book argues in a powerful and insightful manner that intergovernmental negotiated outcomes aimed at solving the climate change and energy access challenges have been restricted by being placed in different negotiating silos. This “siloization” or compartmentalization has resulted in separate tracks of negotiated outcomes on two inextricably linked global development challenges; and, has thereby hindered prospects for integrated action.

This book points out that the existence of these two silos is especially hard to ignore in light of the urgent UN-led quest for an integrated and universal post-2015 development agenda anticipated to be anchored by new sustainable development goals on energy access and climate change. By addressing the heavy reliance on inefficient and polluting energy services which result in indoor air pollution and short lived climate pollutants that tragically impact millions of poor people, this book highlights the unique importance of integrated action on the energy-poverty-climate change nexus in the UN’s post-2015 development era.

Keywords: united nations, Ban Ki-Moon, climate change summit, climatology, climate change, sustainable energy, sustainable development, poverty alleviation, global climate change, environmental change, environmental science, climate science, climate management, climate policy, policy development, 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit, poverty reduction, air pollution, anthropogenic climate change, greenhouse gas, sustainable development goals, Energy & Environmental Impact, Meteorology, Energy & Environmental Impact, Meteorology

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2015
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
304 pages
Category
Natural Sciences
Format
Ebook
eISBN (ePUB)
9781118845622
Printed ISBN
9781118845608

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