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Putting the Genie Back : Solving the Climate and Energy Dilemma - David  Hone

Putting the Genie Back

Solving the Climate and Energy Dilemma

By: David Hone

Paperback | 20 June 2017 | Edition Number 1

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On November 4th 2016 the Paris Agreement entered into force. The warming of the climate system, first recognized over a century ago, has become one of the key political and social issues of our time. Some still deny it is happening, others are incensed by the slow pace of change, while most are left confused and uncertain not just by the science, but by the panoply of solutions put forward by politicians, business people, academics and activists. At its most ambitious, the Paris Agreement implies a transition within the global energy system such that carbon dioxide emissions fall rapidly from 40 billion tonnes per annum in 2016, to net-zero by the middle of the century. Yet our fossil fuel based energy system which ushered in the Industrial Revolution nearly 200 years ago continues to grow and evolve even as new sources of energy come into the market and compete.


The principal economic instrument for change is clear and has been for over two decades, but in 2017 only a fraction of the global economy actively employs government led carbon pricing policies and within that only a handful of systems operate at a level commensurate with the pace and scale of change that is necessary.


As deployment of new energy technologies accelerates, can solutions be found to cover the full range of services delivered by fossil fuels and can warming be limited to the agreed global goals? Putting the Genie Back explores the climate issue from its very beginnings through to the end of end of the 21st Century and looks in depth at the transition challenge we collectively face.

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"Putting the Genie Back is a sobering and insightful look at our global climate challenge and how we arrived at this point. Hone then pragmatically describes solutions, if our combined political will can be summoned to the task. A clear-eyed view of the possible." -- Bob Perciasepe
Chemical engineer David Hone is chief climate change advisor at Shell International Ltd. and a board member of the International Emissions Trading Association. In this book for nonexperts, he draws on his experience in the oil and gas industry to advocate for carbon capture technology and carbon pricing to help remediate climate change. Early chapters explain energy and climate change generally and reveal the effects of coal consumption and carbon dioxide emissions on global climate change. He then defines what carbon pricing is and why it matters, explains the benefits of carbon capture and storage, and offers guidelines on designing a policy framework for carbon pricing and a new global carbon accounting regimen, and dealing with the business response. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *

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