Climate and energy
In the 21st century, the Earth's climate and its energy policy interact and their relationship is studied and governed by a variety of national and international institutions.[1]
The relationships between energy-resource depletion, climate change, health resources and the environment, and the effects that they have on each other, have been subject to numerous scientific studies and research efforts.[2] As a result, a majority of governments [3] see climate and energy as two of the most important policy goals of the twenty first century. [4][5][6]
The correlation between climate and energy rests on known causal relationships between human population growth, rising energy consumption and land use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.[7][8][9][10][11]
The concern for climate change control and mitigation has consequently spurred policy makers and scientists to treat energy use and global climate as an inextricable nexus with effects also going in reverse direction[12] and create various initiatives, institutions and think tanks for a high-level treatment of the relationships:
- Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change (global)
- Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities (Denmark)
- Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (US)
- United States House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (US)
- European Union climate and energy package (EU)
- Department of Energy and Climate Change (UK)
- White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy (US)
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (Australia)
- Minister for the Environment and Water (Australia)
- Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006
- Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Germany)
- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (UK)
- Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee (UK)
- San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law (US)
- Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (United Nations)
See also
- Environmental impact of the energy industry
- Sustainable energy
- Renewable energy
- Energy policy
- Energy industry
- Climate policy
- Water-energy nexus
- Water, energy and food security nexus
- Urbanization
References
- ^ Zelli; Bäckstrand; Nasiritousi; Skovgaard; Widerberg (2020), Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–8, ISBN 9781108484817
- ^ Khan, Syed Abdul Rehman; Zaman, Khalid; Zhang, Yu (2016-09-01). "The relationship between energy-resource depletion, climate change, health resources and the environmental Kuznets curve: Evidence from the panel of selected developed countries". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 62: 468–477. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.04.061. ISSN 1364-0321.
- ^ Martin. "Climate Change". United Nations Sustainable Development. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ Colman, Zack. "Biden says U.S. will quadruple climate aid to poor countries". POLITICO. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ "The countries most vulnerable to climate change are leading the way". Climate Change and Law Collection. doi:10.1163/9789004322714_cclc_2018-0256-004. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ "Issues and priorities for the Twenty-first Century". www.ciesin.org. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ Jones, Glenn A.; Warner, Kevin J. (2016). "The 21st century population-energy-climate nexus". Energy Policy. 93. Elsevier BV: 206–212. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.02.044. ISSN 0301-4215.
- ^ Dale, Virginia H.; Efroymson, Rebecca A.; Kline, Keith L. (2011-05-15). "The land use–climate change–energy nexus". Landscape Ecology. 26 (6). Springer Nature: 755–773. Bibcode:2011AGUFMPA32A..03D. doi:10.1007/s10980-011-9606-2. ISSN 0921-2973. S2CID 2077651.
- ^ Ram Avtar; Saurabh Tripathi; Ashwani Kumar Aggarwal; Pankaj Kumar (2019). "Population–Urbanization–Energy Nexus: A Review". Resources. 8 (3): 136. doi:10.3390/resources8030136.
- ^ Paolo D'Odorico; Kyle Frankel Davi (2018). "The Global Food-Energy-Water Nexus". Reviews of Geophysics. 56 (3): 456–531. Bibcode:2018RvGeo..56..456D. doi:10.1029/2017RG000591. hdl:11577/3286061.
- ^ Mullan, B.; Haqq-Misra, J. (2019). "Population growth, energy use, and the implications for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence". Futures. 106. Elsevier BV: 4–17. arXiv:1806.06474. Bibcode:2019Fut...106....4M. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.009. ISSN 0016-3287. S2CID 119387595.
- ^ "Climate Impacts on Energy - Climate Change Impacts". US EPA. 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2018-03-01.