Sustainable Energy Development under Climate Change

The world faces unprecedented threats from climate change and increasing variability, which severely impacts human society and the natural environment. To reduce future climate change and ensure our economies can grow in a sustainable way, sustainable energy development is considered to be an effective approach. In this context, sustainable energy development involves augmenting our energy supplies and managing demands in a fashion that societal energy needs are met with a minimal effect on greenhouse gas emissions and a nominal resultant contribution to future climate change. In this Special Issue, research papers focus on the role of sustainable energy development (while addressing important dimensions of sustainability), which mandates an inter-disciplinary perspective in all articles. We collected 11 such papers that have analyzed a broad array of topics related to bioenergy, wind power, industrial innovation, and climate change mitigation. These papers show the varied application of renewable energy and climate change energy responses, while providing meaningful decision-making information and policy implications.

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Recycling as seduction: Critiquing the practice of climate-change education from a primary classroom

10.18296/set.0181 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 12-17

Author(s):

Sylvia Reynolds

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Future Climate ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Experienced Teacher ◽

Climate Change Education ◽

Primary Classroom ◽

Complex Problems ◽

Insufficient Response ◽

Mitigate Climate Change

Recycling is often included in lists of things that can be done to mitigate climate change. Recycling is not a “bad’ thing, but recycling alone is an insufficient response to the complex problems posed by climate change. This article takes the reader through the journey of an experienced teacher who began with a hopeful vision to include climate change in her school’s programme, meandered through a myriad distracting recycling schemes, until she reached a deeper understanding of the barriers to climate change education and the role of emotions in these programmes. The article concludes with her three key lessons for future climate change curriculum projects.

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The role of long-lived greenhouse gases as principal LW control knob that governs the global surface temperature for past and future climate change

Tellus B ◽

10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.19734 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 19734 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Andrew A. Lacis ◽

James E. Hansen ◽

Gary L. Russell ◽

Valdar Oinas ◽

Jeffrey Jonas

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Greenhouse Gases ◽

Surface Temperature ◽

Future Climate ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Control Knob ◽

Global Surface Temperature ◽

Global Surface

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Climate change penalty and benefit on surface ozone: A global perspective based on CMIP6 earth system models

Environmental Research Letters ◽

10.1088/1748-9326/ac4a34 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Prodromos Zanis ◽

Dimitris Akritidis ◽

Steven Turnock ◽

Vaishali Naik ◽

Sophie Szopa ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Surface Ozone ◽

Pollution Sources ◽

Future Climate ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Model Intercomparison ◽

Intercomparison Project ◽

Emission Changes ◽

Earth System Models

Abstract This work presents an analysis of the effect of climate change on surface ozone discussing the related penalties and benefits around the globe from the global modeling perspective based on simulations with five CMIP6 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6) Earth System Models. As part of AerChemMIP (Aerosol Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project) all models conducted simulation experiments considering future climate (ssp370SST) and present-day climate (ssp370pdSST) under the same future emissions trajectory (SSP3-7.0). A multi-model global average climate change benefit on surface ozone of -0.96±0.07 ppbv oC-1 is calculated which is mainly linked to the dominating role of enhanced ozone destruction with higher water vapour abudances under a warmer climate. Over regions remote from pollution sources, there is a robust decline in mean surface ozone concentration on an annual basis as well as for boreal winter and summer varying spatially from -0.2 to -2 ppbv oC-1, with strongest decline over tropical oceanic regions. The implication is that over regions remote from pollution sources (except over the Arctic) there is a consistent climate change benefit for baseline ozone due to global warming. However, ozone increases over regions close to anthropogenic pollution sources or close to enhanced natural Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOC) emission sources with a rate ranging regionally from 0.2 to 2 ppbv oC-1, implying a regional surface ozone penalty due to global warming. Overall, the future climate change enhances the efficiency of precursor emissions to generate surface ozone in polluted regions and thus the magnitude of this effect depends on the regional emission changes considered in this study within the SSP3_7.0 scenario. The comparison of the climate change impact effect on surface ozone versus the combined effect of climate and emission changes indicates the dominant role of precursor emission changes in projecting surface ozone concentrations under future climate change scenarios.

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