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Energy & Climate Change issues: The World Energy Book 2007
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"Climate change is the planet's foremost challenge. The energy industry is responsible for most greenhouse-gas emissions and, consequently must play a significant part in climate-change mitigation."
Heikki Raumolin, senior adviser, generation nuclear, Fortum

Energy & Climate Change Issues: The World Energy Book is a geopolitical and technical guide to the challenges – and commercial opportunities – of global warming. It is the first book to look at all plausible remedies, written by the industry people most able to deliver them. Its articles, case studies, and high-level analysis follow an easily comprehensible, practical structure.

"The power sector must provide enough electricity to meet rising demand while also playing its part in combating climate change – requiring severe reductions in CO2 emissions."
Kevin Gould and Kjetil Røine, research and advisory, Point Carbon

Energy & Climate Change Issues: The World Energy Book consists of 30 articles that include detailed analysis of each of the major energy sources – and their likely contribution to climate change. It looks at the technologies that will help to mitigate climate change, evaluates the changing regulatory climate, and examines the newly created carbon markets. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the future of sustainable energy.

"There is a growing sense that US policymakers will soon pass national climate-change legislation."
Truman Semans, director for markets and business strategy, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change

The authors are leading practitioners from ABB, Practical Action, New Energy Finance, the Egyptian New & Renewable Energy Authority, Brenco (Brazilian Renewable Energy), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the Energy Commission of Nigeria, the US Energy Information Administration, The World Bank, Ernst & Young, Wood Mackenzie, Deloitte & Touche, Verbundnetz Gas, Fortum, Chatham House, Beckman Institute and Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Vestas Wind Systems, AWS Truewind, FreeStream, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Point Carbon, Petroleum Economist, Vattenfall, RWE, the European Climate Exchange, Areva, Bioverda, Cap Gemini, and IBM.
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Table of Contents

Forewords

1.1 Leading the way
André Caillé, chairman, World Energy Council

1.2 Welcome to Rome
Chicco Testa, vice-chair, Rome Congress, World Energy Council

Accessibility

2.1 Let everyone climb the energy ladder
Anders Nordström, group advisor, sustainability affairs, ABB

2.2 Breaking the poverty cycle
Andrew Scott, director of policy and Jane Eason, media and press officer, Practical Action

2.3 Renewable-energy financings surge
Angus McCrone, chief editor, New Energy Finance

2.4 Wind the key to Egypt’s secure energy supply
Samir M Hassan, executive chairman, New & Renewable Energy Authority, Egypt

2.5 The sugar rush
Rogerio Manso, executive vice-president, Brenco (Brazilian Renewable Energy)

2.6 Bioenergy: opportunities and challenges
Alexander Müller, assistant director-general, Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, UN Food and Agriculture Organization

2.7 Grand Inga, grand intentions
Abubakar Sambo, chairman, National Committee, World Energy Council, Energy Commission of Nigeria

Availability

3.1 The long-term energy outlook
Linda Doman, international energy analyst, Energy Information Administration

3.2 Clean energy for development
Katherine Sierra, vice-president, sustainable development, The World Bank

3.3 The 21st century industry
Jonathan Johns, partner, renewables, waste and clean energy group, Ernst & Young

3.4 Unconventional hydrocarbons: a hidden opportunity
Rhodri Thomas, managing consultant, Wood Mackenzie

3.5 Producers dilemma – oil-sands sustainability
Dick Cooper, national leader, Energy Resources Canada, Deloitte & Touche

3.6 Russia: an essential, reliable gas supply source
Klaus-Ewald Holst, chief executive, Verbundnetz Gas

3.7 The nuclear option
Heikki Raumolin, senior adviser, generation nuclear, Fortum

3.8 Politics, society and nuclear new build
Malcolm Grimston, associate fellow, Chatham House

3.9 Quantum leap
Nathan Lewis, professor of chemistry, Beckman Institute and Kavli Nanoscience Institute, California
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3.10 The power of wind
Peter W Kruse, vice-president, group communications, Vestas Wind Systems

3.11 Wind energy moves into the mainstream
Bruce H Bailey, president, AWS Truewind

3.12 Financing prospects for wind energy
Michael Davies, partner, FreeStream Partners

Acceptability

4.1 A cap’s in hand

Truman Semans, director for markets and business strategy, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change

4.2 Translating ambition into reality
Manfred Wiegand, global utilites leader, and Richard Gledhill, global leader, climate change services, PricewaterhouseCoopers

4.3 Power investors seek carbon signals
Kevin Gould and Kjetil Røine, research and advisory, Point Carbon

4.4 CCS: the new prize
Tom Nicholls, editor, Petroleum Economist

4.5 CCS: we need it fast
Lars G Josefsson, president and chief executive officer, Vattenfall

4.6 The role of coal
Hans-Wilhelm Schiffer, head of energy economics, RWE Power, Essen

4.7 Carbon trading – new commodity on the block
Patrick Birley, chief executive, European Climate Exchange

4.8 Sustainable management of radioactive waste
Didier Beutier, vice-president for economic and prospective studies, and Jean-Guy Devezeaux de Lavergne, director for radioactive-waste management, Areva

4.9 Biofuels: part of the climate change solution
John Mullins, chief executive, Bioverda

4.10 Smart metering: a piece in the climate puzzle
Doug Houseman, Cap Gemini

4.11 Intelligent utility networks respond to climate change
Guido Bartels, general manager, global energy and utilities industry, and Michael Valocchi, global leader, energy and utilities global business services, IBM