Proven Climate Solutions (eBook, PDF)

Leading Voices on How to Accelerate Change
Redaktion: Nagy, Bf

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet. As governments and businesses continue to set climate goals for reducing carbon emissions and slowing global warming, scientists, engineers, and policymakers are using cutting-edge research to introduce new climate technologies and strategies for achieving and potentially surpassing these goals. Presented by world-leading climate scientists and futurists, Proven Climate Solutions offers a dynamic, evidence-based action plan that uncovers the hard work, dedication, and best practices of climate heroes who are accelerating change and winning the battle to protect our environment. BF Nagy along with Bill McKibben, Mark Jacobson, Robert Howarth, Nancy Ryan, and ten other top climate leaders have synthesized a clear pathway for a rapid energy transition ramp-up. This includes game-changing climate emergency solutions and governing policies to supercharge deployment and finally retire old, obsolete systems and tired ideas. The essays included cover a wide range of environmental innovations from renewables and batteries to water technologies and biodiversity and much more, highlighting the strengths, weaknesses, and roles to be played by new technologies and offering readers encouragement for a climate-friendly future. It is long past time to halt the nonsense and destruction, instead embracing the crucial changes and bold actions needed to create an equitable, affordable, and healthy world for our children. This definitive guide provides the facts on proven, practical solutions now being deployed, and how these solutions can be accelerated to save our planet before it's too late.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216332220
• Artikelnr.: 74841746

Autorenporträt

BF Nagy produces and hosts clean energy webinars for city planners on behalf of Canada's federal government, is an international consultant to corporations and governments, and is a leading expert on green buildings and communities, electrified transportation, renewables, storage, protecting water, and natural refrigerants. He has written more than 200 feature magazine articles for the New York Times, Corporate Knights, Globe & Mail, National Observer, and Open Access Government, and is a regular columnist for several others, including technical publications for policymakers and construction professionals. Nagy is the author of The Clean Energy Age: A Guide to Beating Climate Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Mary D. Nichols
Acknowledgements
Preface: Lakes, Trees, and Filthy Feet
Introduction: The Need for Speed
Chapter 1: Stop Burning Things by Bill McKibben
Chapter 2: The Realities of the Climate Imperative by BF Nagy
Chapter 3: 100% Renewables and the Six Year Payback by Professor Mark
Jacobson
Chapter 4: Selling Our Home to the Highest Bidder by BF Nagy
Chapter 5: False Solutions from the Gas Industry by Professor Robert
Howarth
Chapter 6: Opportunity Costs and Distractions by BF Nagy
Chapter 7: Here Comes the Sun - Distributed Energy Resources and Virtual
Power Plants by Dr. Audrey Lee, Laura Fedoruk and Steve Wheat
Chapter 8: Change by BF Nagy
Chapter 9: Policy & Planning for Electric Vehicle Grid Integration by Dr.
Nancy Ryan
Chapter 10: The Energy Storage Challenge byProfessor Jeff Dahn
Chapter 11: Aviation Electrification by Michael Barnard
Chapter 12: Reinventing Buildings and Communities by BF Nagy
Chapter 13: Hockey, Natural Refrigerants & Greening Industry by BF Nagy
Chapter 14: Polar Biodiversity & Climate by Dr. David Barnes
Chapter 15: Arrogance, Carelessness & Humility by BF Nagy
Chapter 16: Circular Food Systems: Feeding the Urban World by Kate Gaertner
Chapter 17: Water by BF Nagy
Chapter 18: Toward Energy Neutrality in Wastewater Treatment by Dr. Luxmy
Begum
Chapter 19: Urban Planning, Government Priorities& Oxygen by BF Nagy
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Contributors