The Sustainability Conundrum: Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development

The Sustainability Conundrum: Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development investigates how a clean environment and mitigation of Global Climate Change will affect the UN’s sustainability goals for development, poverty elimination, and inequality reduction.It covers the necessity of energy use for humans, the global demand and the supply of energy, and the environmental challenges of energy consumption. Outlining the interconnections between four of the UN goals, the book discusses the Global Climate Change problem by explaining how the scientific community eradicated other global environmental threats, such as acid rain, lead contamination, and the ozone hole.It establishes the uniqueness of Global Climate Change; evaluates proposed methods and “roadmaps” to achieve meaningful carbon dioxide emissions reductions; computes the cost of the necessary infrastructure for their implementation on a regional and a global scale; and draws conclusions about the implementation of the propo