Post-Covid-19 Energy Transition Strategies: Even Reaching 100% Renewable in Ecuador by 2055 is not Enough to Face Climate Change Issue

Abstract In 2017, the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) began a modernization process aimed at updating, clarifying, and modernizing a number of provisions of the Treaty. Considering the scope of application of the Treaty—cooperation in energy trade, transit, and investment—there is hardly any doubt that the modernization kicked off in 2017 offers a springboard for constructive reform and a unique opportunity to bring the Treaty closer in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Although none of the items selected by the Energy Charter Conference and open for discussion and reform mention climate change or clean energy, a careful analysis of the relevant practice in both treaty drafting and adjudication can provide valuable insights as to how to steer the discussions on some of the existing items in a climate-friendly direction. The purpose of this article is to rely on this relevant practice to explore promising avenues to ‘retool’ the Treaty for climate change mitigation, in other words, to imagine a Treaty that would better reflect climate change concerns and clean energy transition goals.

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Temperature Effects on Electricity and Gas Consumption: Empirical Evidence from Mexico and Projections under Future Climate Conditions

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13010305 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 305

Author(s):

W.J. Wouter Botzen ◽

Tim Nees ◽

Francisco Estrada

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Electricity Consumption ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Net Energy ◽

Economic Costs ◽

Climate Conditions ◽

Linear Relationships ◽

Gas Consumption

Fixed effects panel models are used to estimate how the electricity and gas consumption of various sectors and residents relate to temperature in Mexico, while controlling for the effects of income, manufacturing output per capita, electricity and gas prices and household size. We find non-linear relationships between energy consumption and temperature, which are heterogeneous per state. Electricity consumption increases with temperature, and this effect is stronger in warm states. Liquified petroleum gas consumption declines with temperature, and this effect is slightly stronger in cold states. Extrapolations of electricity and gas consumption under a high warming scenario reveal that electricity consumption by the end of the century for Mexico increases by 12%, while gas consumption declines with 10%, resulting in substantial net economic costs of 43 billion pesos per year. The increase in net energy consumption implies greater efforts to comply with the mitigation commitments of Mexico and requires a much faster energy transition and substantial improvements in energy efficiency. The results suggest that challenges posed by climate change also provide important opportunities for advancing social sustainability goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This study is part of Mexico’s Sixth National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Climate change issue invite

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health ◽

10.1111/jpc.15503 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Issue

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Assessment of Energy Transition Policy in Taiwan—A View of Sustainable Development Perspectives

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14154402 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (15) ◽

pp. 4402

Author(s):

Chun-Kai Wang ◽

Chien-Ming Lee ◽

Yue-Rong Hong ◽

Kan Cheng

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Power Generation ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Adaptive Policy ◽

Electricity Saving ◽

Transition Policy ◽

Development Perspective

Energy transition has become a priority for adaptive policy and measures taken in response to climate change around the world. This is an opportunity and a challenge for the Taiwan government to establish a climate-resilient power generation mixed to ensure electricity security as well as climate change mitigation. This study adopted a sustainable development perspective and applied optimal control theory to establish a cost-effective model to evaluate a long-term (2050), climate-resilient power generation mix for Taiwan. Furthermore, this study applies the STIRPAT approach to predict the demand of electricity by 2050 for the demand side management. The results not only showed the share of various power generation mixed, but also recommended the trajectory of electricity saving by 2050.

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The role of youth in the climate change debate

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckz185.158 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽

Author(s):

P Van Den Hazel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Young People ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Business Leaders ◽

Sustainable Lifestyles ◽

Raising Awareness ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

Indirect Impacts ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally. Some people will experience natural disasters first hand, some will be affected more gradually over time, and some will experience only indirect impacts. There are data from the United nations that show the interest of youth on climate change. Close to half a million youth around the world have taken action on climate change through SGP [small grants programmes] projects in their homes, schools and communities. (UNDP, 2015). 84% of the surveyed young people agree that they need more information to prevent climate change. (UNEP, 2011). Furthermore, about 73% of surveyed youth say they currently feel the effects climate change. (UNEP, GlobeScan Survey, 2008). Some 89% of youth respondents say young people can make a difference on climate change. [UNEP, 2008]. But only 9% of youth are very confident the world will act quickly enough to address climate change. [UNEP, 2008]. Young people are key actors in raising awareness, running educational programmes, promoting sustainable lifestyles, conserving nature, supporting renewable energy, adopting environmentally-friendly practices and implementing adaptation and mitigation projects[UNFCCC]. Action by youth, as protest school strikes or speeches to the UN by Greta Thunberg, urge immediate action from governments, business leaders and school leaders. There are different reasons for this action by youth. The psycho-social impacts of a changing climate are generally under lighted in these reasons. Are the responses by society enough to minimize suffering and promote resilience of youth in the face of the challenging impacts of climate change? Or do governments and businesses enough while they increasingly seem to be moving toward action on climate change, as they proclaim to cut their own emissions or be active in their energy transition? It is not clear whether those actions are enough to satisfy the next generation of customers, employees and decision makers.

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The Gradual Integration of CCUS into National and Regional Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation, Energy Transition, Ecological Transition, Research and Innovation: An Overview for France

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3821672 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Isabelle Czernichowski-Lauriol ◽

Valérie Czop ◽

Florence Delprat-Jannaud ◽

Aicha El Khamlichi ◽

Laurent Jammes ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

Regional Strategies ◽

Transition Research ◽

Ecological Transition ◽

Change Mitigation

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Mineral raw material requirements and associated climate-change impacts of the French energy transition by 2050

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.154 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 208 ◽

pp. 1198-1205 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Antoine Beylot ◽

Dominique Guyonnet ◽

Stéphanie Muller ◽

Stéphane Vaxelaire ◽

Jacques Villeneuve

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Raw Material ◽

Mineral Raw Material ◽

Material Requirements

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A new clustering and visualization method to evaluate urban energy planning scenarios

10.31224/osf.io/b9znk ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sara Torabi Moghadam ◽

Silvia Coccolo ◽

Guglielmina Mutani ◽

Patrizia Lombardi ◽

Jean Louis Scartezzini ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Consumption ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Energy Demand ◽

Planning Process ◽

Energy Transition ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Energy Planning ◽

Transition Strategies ◽

Urban Energy ◽

The City

The spatial visualization is a very useful tool to help decision-makers in the urban planning process to create future energy transition strategies, implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in the context of sustainable cities. Statistical methods are often used to understand the driving parameters of energy consumption but rarely used to evaluate future urban renovation scenarios. Simulating whole cities using energy demand softwares can be very extensive in terms of computer resources and data collection. A new methodology, using city archetypes is proposed, here, to simulate the energy consumption of urban areas including urban energy planning scenarios. The objective of this paper is to present an innovative solution for the computation and visualization of energy saving at the city scale.The energy demand of cities, as well as the micro-climatic conditions, are calculated by using a simplified 3D model designed as function of the city urban geometrical and physical characteristics. Data are extracted from a GIS database that was used in a previous study. In this paper, we showed how the number of buildings to be simulated can be drastically reduced without affecting the accuracy of the results. This model is then used to evaluate the influence of two set of renovation solutions. The energy consumption are then integrated back in the GIS to identify the areas in the city where refurbishment works are needed more rapidly. The city of Settimo Torinese (Italy) is used as a demonstrator for the proposed methodology, which can be applied to all cities worldwide with limited amount of information.

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