Renewable Energy and the City: Urban Life in an Age of Fossil Fuel Depletion and Climate Change

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Droege
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Divest New York: The City of New York, C40, Fossil Fuel Divestment, and Climate Litigation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The City

Refereed Article. Matthew Rimmer, ‘Divest New York: The City of New York, C40, Fossil Fuel Divestment, and Climate Litigation’, (2019) 14 The Newcastle Law Review 51-77. Abstract In a case study of the City of New York, this paper explores and analyses civic, municipal narratives about climate activism, local government, fossil fuel divestment and climate litigation. Part 1 considers the integral part of the City of New York in the establishment and the evolution of the C40 Network. Part 2 focuses upon the fossil fuel divestment decision of the City of New York, and its commitment to reinvestment in respect of renewable energy and climate solutions. Part 3 examines the unsuccessful climate litigation by the City of New York against a number of major oil companies for damage caused by climate change, and the prospects of a future appeal. This paper contends that the City of New York provides an exceptional example for other cities seeking to support climate action.

scholarly journals The 21st Century Coal Question: China, India, Development, and Climate Change

Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 476
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Warner ◽  
Glenn A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Community Based ◽  
China And India ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Fossil Fuel Emissions

China and India are not only the two most populous nations on Earth, they are also two of the most rapidly growing economies. Historically, economic and social development have been subsidized by cheap and abundant fossil-fuels. Climate change from fossil-fuel emissions has resulted in the need to reduce fossil-fuel emissions in order to avoid catastrophic warming. If climate goals are achieved, China and India will have been the first major economies to develop via renewable energy sources. In this article, we examine the factors of projected population growth, available fossil-fuel reserves, and renewable energy installations required to develop scenarios in which both China and India may increase per capita energy consumption while remaining on trach to meet ambitious climate goals. Here, we show that China and India will have to expand their renewable energy infrastructure at unprecedented rates in order to support both population growth and development goals. In the larger scope of the literature, we recommend community-based approaches to microgrid and cookstove development in both China and India.

scholarly journals Ocean As Place For Urban Life:  Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion & Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Piers Brereton Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Life ◽  
Coastal City ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Flexible Framework ◽  
Architectural Development ◽  
The City

<p>Coastal cities form some of the largest and most important cities in the world. The unique character of these cities has been shaped and moulded by the coastal environment. As powerful as these cities seem they have became vulnerable. Coastal cities face the need to expand with rapidly growing populations, also, sea level rise has been increased by climate change, which threatens this expansion and the city itself. This thesis explores how the effects of climate change and urban congestion can be mitigated through architectural development, incorporating a flexible framework for housing and the adaption of the urban fabric to living on water. It seeks to change the perception of buildable space and adapt to the changing face of the coastal city and its environment. The research finds that responses to the coastal city problem exist only as separate projects independent of one another. A unified solution is needed to mitigate these issues between all coastal cities. This can be resolved by combining strategies within further inner city developments. The project responds to coastal city issues as well as adapting to current city inhabitation. Modern city life is one of change and movement. Travel between cities is frequent due to changing lifestyles and job opportunities. Developing on this lifestyle, the project successfully investigates a solution to help protect and improve the life of the coastal city, addressing the problems of tomorrow, today.</p>

scholarly journals Multicriteria assessment of renewable energy sources in Serbia

Tehnika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
Bojan Stojčetović ◽  
Milan Mišić ◽  
Aleksandar Đorđević
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Potential Solution ◽  
Analytical Hierarchical Process ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Multicriteria Assessment

The development of today's economies is inconceivable without energy. However, fossil fuel reserves are declining, climate change is accelerating and some changes in the energy sector are needed. Renewable energy sources are a potential solution for many scientists and practitioners. However, the planning and implementation of renewable energy projects requires consideration of a number of criteria, which is why multicriteria decision-making methods are often used to evaluate renewable energy sources/technologies. Goal of this paper is to evaluate four types of renewable energy sources (photovoltaic, hydro, biomass and wind energy) in Serbia. Analytical hierarchical process and seven criteria were applied. Based on the obtained results, hydro sources are ranked the best. Also, a sensitivity analysis was conducted to determine whether changes in the priority of criteria would cause changes in the range of alternatives. It was found that major changes in priorities are needed for changes to occur, so it can be concluded that the results obtained are relevant.

Renewable Energy and Carbon Footprint Emission at University Technology Malaysia (UTM)

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 1861-1864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeynab Yazdani ◽  
Amirreza Naderipour ◽  
Mohd. Zaki Kamsah
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
University Technology ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Photo Voltaic

The addition of renewable energy as the fifth source of Fuel Policy which was formulated under the 8th Malaysia Plan (20012005) to reduce dependency on fossil fuel and to address the rising global concern about climate change. This study is specifically on the GHG emissions from the consumption electricity are considered to be indirect emissions by the GHG Protocol guideline and effectiveness of using solar power Energy in order to calculate the current carbon footprint from electricity consumed at UTM and using Photo Voltaic (PV) as a renewable energy for reduce CO2 emission.

Financing Renewable Energy in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier ◽  
Anderson Souza da Silva Lanzillo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Gas Industry

This chapter analyses Brazilian public policy on financing renewable energy to address climate change. Conditions in Brazil favour adoption of an increasingly clean energy matrix: with significant innovation in energy policy and technology much of the country’s energy production now comes from renewable sources. The chapter examines the National Policy on Climate Change (Federal Law no. 12.187/2009), the National Fund for Climate Change (Federal Law no. 12.114/2009). Yet, energy for Brazil’s transportation system remains largely fossil fuel-based, and the oil and gas industry is economically important. The chapter discusses the intergration of renewable energy into climate change policy and adoption of climate policy in energy legislation, together with measures such as taxation that support renewable energy. The chapter examines the oil and gas industry economic crisis and the ramifications for financing renewable energy given historic reliance on the fossil fuel sector to fund innovations in renewable energy technologies.

Impasse Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Mark Simpson ◽  
Imre Szeman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Temporal Mode ◽  
Fossil Fuel Energy

Although energy transition—a shift from dirty energy to cleaner, renewable energy—has become a mantra for an effective way of addressing climate change, energy impasse—the incapacity of any transition whatsoever—is actually the defining condition of our age. This essay contributes to a fuller understanding of energy transition, climate change, and the promise of renewable energy by examining the specific temporality of energy impasse. Rather than a simple blockage that can easily be nudged aside, energy impasse is underwritten by a temporal “stuckness” that is a key effect of two centuries of fossil fuel energy use. The specific characteristics of this distinct temporal mode are explored in relation to the twentieth-century project of economic futurity historicized by Timothy Mitchell and two recent versions of sustainable futurity theorized by Allan Stoekl. The time signatures named and explained in these examples of futurity serve, in distinct but complementary ways, to enable and perpetuate the stuckness of energy impasse. The essay’s argument illuminates the abiding challenge posed by petroculture, while considering the implications of impasse time for the form of solar futurity here termed the solar fix.

The Contribution of Riparian Zone on Urban Ecosystems through Climate Change Urban Adaptation Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hande Gündel ◽  
Ayşe Kalaycı Önaç
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Riparian Zone ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Habitat ◽  
The City

The riparian zone plays a crucial role in the development and transformation of cities. This zone dramatically changes cities both ecologically and economically and is one of the cornerstones of the future scenarios of the city. These areas constitute significant emphasis throughout the city by providing wildlife, improving the water quality, reducing flood areas, and creating social activity areas in the city. Besides, it influences land use, transportation, energy efficiency, social life. The riparian zones are one of the most significant components of the cities that mitigate the climate change effects. Because, the existence of water creates microclimatic conditions around the cities and this conserves the heat island effect, greenhouse effect, and also air pollution. The deterioration of the sustainability of this important backbone throughout the city causes an important loss in terms of urban ecosystems. Because it is an important connection of natural life and urban life, and any deterioration causes two important characters to be separated from one another. In this regard, ensuring water management in the city is a crucial issue in terms of urban habitat. In the scope of this study, research was conducted on the contribution of riparian zone to the urban ecosystem and also how the presence of this backbone system in the city transforms the urban areas was discussed.

scholarly journals Likelihood of climate change pathways under uncertainty on fossil fuel resource availability

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 2482-2496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iñigo Capellán-Pérez ◽  
Iñaki Arto ◽  
Josué M. Polanco-Martínez ◽  
Mikel González-Eguino ◽  
Marc B. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Entire Range ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Fuel Resource ◽  
Climate Action

The consideration of the entire range of revised estimates of fossil fuels resources shows that their depletion is likely to occur during the 21st century accelerating the transition to renewable energy sources but not alleviating the need for urgent climate action.

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