Final Cambridge University Press Version of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation

A few days ago, Cambridge University Press made available online the final book version of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (aka "SRREN"). It is written by the IPCC's Working Group III and was first published online as an unedited version on June 14, 2011. It is 1076 pages long. I'll take time to read through the report and write a little about it later.

Edenhofer, O., Pichs-Madruga, R., Sokona, Y., Seyboth, K., Matschoss, P., Kadner, S., Zwickel, T., Eickemeier, P., Hansen, G., Schlömer, S., & von Stechow, C. (Eds.). (2012). IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. [Full-text at http://j.mp/SRREN]

Contents

Section I
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Preface  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Section II
Summary for Policymakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Technical Summary  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Section III
Chapter 1 Renewable Energy and Climate Change  . . . . . . . .161
Chapter 2 Bioenergy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
Chapter 3 Direct Solar Energy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333
Chapter 4 Geothermal Energy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .401
Chapter 5 Hydropower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .437
Chapter 6 Ocean Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .497
Chapter 7 Wind Energy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .535
Chapter 8 Integration of Renewable Energy into Present and
 Future Energy Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .609
Chapter 9 Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable
 Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .707
Chapter 10 Mitigation Potential and Costs  . . . . . . . . . .791
Chapter 11 Policy, Financing and Implementation  . . . . . . .865

Section IV
Annex I Glossary, Acronyms, Chemical Symbols and Prefixes  . .953
Annex II Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .973
Annex III Recent Renewable Energy Cost and Performance
 Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1001
Annex IV Contributors to the IPCC Special Report . . . . . . 1023
Annex V Reviewers of the IPCC Special Report . . . . . . . . 1033
Annex VI Permissions to Publish  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051
Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059