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Environmental and Economic Impacts of Decarbonization: Input-Output Studies on the Consequences of the 2015 Paris Agreements book cover

1st Edition

Environmental and Economic Impacts of Decarbonization Input-Output Studies on the Consequences of the 2015 Paris Agreements

Edited By Óscar Dejuán, Manfred Lenzen, Maria Ángeles Cadarso Copyright 2018
404 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages 91 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

402 Pages 91 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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On December 12 th , 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal and legally binding climate deal. They agreed to decarbonize the economy in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2ºC relative to the preindustrial levels. Although each country is free to design its own strategy on... Read more

Introduction



Óscar Dejuán, María-Ángeles Cadarso and Manfred Lenzen



Part I. Electricity generation. Towards a cleaner mix





Decarbonizing electricity generation in the EU. Its impact on emissions and employment all over the world



Óscar Dejuán, Jorge Zafrilla, María-Ángeles Tobarra, Fabio Monsalve and Carmen Córcoles



Indirect emissions and socio-economic impacts on energy efficiency. Improvements and renewable electricity in Europe



Kurt Kratena



Global renewable energy diffusion in an input-output framework



Kirsten S. Wiebe



Potentials to decarbonize electricity consumption in Australia



Paul Wolfram and Thomas Wiedmann



Part II. Household consumption and social well-being





Global income inequality and carbon footprints: can we have the cake and eat it too?



Klaus Hubacek, Giovanni Baiocchi, Kuishuang Feng, Raúl Muñoz-Castillo, Laixiang Sun and Jinjun Xue



The potential contribution of solar thermal electricity (STE) in Mexico in the light of the Paris Agreements



Irene Rodríguez-Serrano and Natalia Caldés



Peak carbon emission in China: a household energy use perspective



Haiyan Zhang and Michael L. Lahr



The road to Paris with energy-efficiency strategies and GHG emissions-reduction targets: the case of Spain



Rosa Duarte, Julio Sánchez-Chóliz and Cristina Sarasa



Part III. Key drivers in carbon emissions and improvements in energy efficiency





Global drivers of change in GHG emissions from a consumption perspective. Carbon footprint accounting in a post-Paris world



Soeren Lindner, José-Manuel Rueda-Cantuche and Richard Wood



South America’s global value chains and CO2 emissions embodied in trade, an input-output approach



José Durán-Lima and Santacruz Banacloche



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Biography

Óscar Dejuán is Professor of Economics at University of Castilla, La Mancha, Spain.



Manfred Lenzen is Professor of Sustainability Research in the School of Physics at University of Sydney, Australia.



María Ángeles Cadarso is Associate Professor of Economics at University of Castilla, La Mancha, Spain.

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