Abstract
All societies requir e energy services to meet basic human needs (e.g.,
lighting, cooking, space comfort, mobility, communication) and to
serve productive processes. For development to be sustainable, delivery
of energy services needs to be secure and have low environmental
impacts. Sustainable social and economic development requires assured
and affordable access to the energy resources necessary to provide
essential and sustainable energy services. This may mean the application
of different strategies at different stages of economic development.
To be environmentally benign, energy services must be provided with
low environmental impacts and low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
However, the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) reported that fossil
fuels provided 85%1 of the total primary energy in 2004, which is
the same value as in 2008. Furthermore, the combustion of fossil fuels
accounted for 56.6% of all anthropogenic GHG emissions (CO2eq)2 in
2004. [1.1.1, 9.2.1, 9.3.2, 9.6, 11.3]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation : Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| Editors | O. Edenhofer |
| Place of Publication | Camnbridge [etc.] |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 27-158 |
| Number of pages | 1088 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-107-02340-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |