Cleaner Energy Cooler Climate

Developing sustainable energy solutions for South Africa 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 book provides an innovative and strategic approach to climate policy, with local development objectives as its starting point.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

168mm x 240mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

280

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2230-4

Publish Year:

2008

Rights:

World Rights

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Acknowledgements

Abbreviations, acronyms and units

1. Introduction

Energy, sustainable development and climate change in South Africa
Outline of the book

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Assessing the implications of policies

Residential energy policies
Electricity supply options
Conclusion

7. Indicators of sustainable development

Sustainable development indicators
Economic
Environmental
Social
Comparisons and conclusions

8. 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

9. 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

10. Conclusion

References

Index

Dr Harald Winkler is Programme Leader for Energy, Environment and Climate Change in the Energy Research Centre at the University of Cape Town. Dr Winkler is also lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III for the Fourth Member of the South African delegation to the negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is a member of the International Society of Ecological Economics and was a member of the Standards Advisory Board of the WWF Carbon Label for CDM projects 2002 – 2005.