Short description
Energy and climate change are issues of critical importance for shaping a sustainable future, both in South Africa and globally.
Long description
Energy and climate change are issues of critical importance for shaping a sustainable future, both in South Africa and globally. For South Africa, finding a policy approach which balances the increasing demand for energy with the need for sustainability, equity and climate change mitigation is a particular challenge. This title provides an innovative and strategic approach to climate policy, with local development objectives as its starting point. Through energy modelling, indicators of sustainable development and policy analysis, Harald Winkler builds a rich and detailed case study illustrating how a development-focused approach to energy and climate policy might work in South Africa. Moreover, with recent record-setting global crude oil prices, this title points out that making energy supply and use more sustainable is a central challenge in South Africa's future development path. An energy researcher, IPCC author (Intergovernmental panel on climate change) and a member of the South African delegation to the UN Framework convention on climate change, Winkler offers a nuanced examination of where the synergies and trade-offs lie, and makes clear the imperative of considering long-term implications when meeting short-term needs.
Review
Recently, significant progress has been made in integrating climate change policies into sustainable development strategy, and Harald Winkler's book is an excellent example that applies this promising approach to both energy policy in South Africa and global climate negotiations. This clear and concise volume is a must-read for students, researchers, negotiators and policymakers looking for practical solutions. Professor Mohan Munasinghe, Vice Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and co-laureate 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change
Table of contents
- Energy, sustainable development and climate change in South Africa
- outline of the book
- Sustainable development, energy and climate change
- Working definition of sustainable development
- energy for sustainable development
- sustainable development and climate change
- sustainable development paths as an approach to mitigation
- conclusion
- Starting from development objectives
- The broader context
- The policy environment in the energy sector
- the role of electricity in development
- economic and institutional aspects
- social dimensions and the residential sector
- environmental impacts
- conclusions
- comparing and assessing
- Options for energy policy
- Affordable access to electricity
- energy governance – to privatise or not?
- managing energy
- related environmental impacts
- economic development and instruments
- securing electricity supply through diversity
- conclusion
- Modelling energy policies
- Focus of policy modelling
- drivers of future trends and key assumptions
- the base case
- overview of policy cases
- residential energy policies
- electricity supply options
- conclusion
- Assessing the implications of policies
- Residential energy policies
- electricity supply options
- conclusion
- Indicators of sustainable development
- Sustainable development indicators
- economic
- environmental
- social
- comparisons and conclusions
- Developing sustainable energy for national climate policy
- Implementing sustainable residential energy policies
- choosing electricity supply options for sustainability
- options for South Africa's mitigation policy
- Implications for international climate change negotiations
- Proposals on the future of the climate regime
- sustainable development policies and measures
- would sd
- pams make a difference?
- the future of the climate change framework