A global energy assessment

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Michael Jefferson

Published Online: Aug 19 2015

DOI: 10.1002/wene.179

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Against the background of IIASA’s massive (their word) ‘global energy assessment’ (GEA), this paper takes a closer look at the challenges posed by population growth, energy poverty, the fossil fuels and carbon storage, renewable energy, energy efficiency, natural catastrophes, and potential climatic change to offer a somber, although arguably more realistic, overview of what the future may hold than the GEA achieved. WIREs Energy Environ 2016, 5:7–15. doi: 10.1002/wene.179 This article is categorized under: Energy Systems Economics > Systems and Infrastructure Energy Policy and Planning > Economics and Policy Energy and Development > Systems and Infrastructure Energy and Development > Climate and Environment

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