We need clean and low-carbon energy

We need ‘clean and low-carbon’ energy, NOT ‘dirty and low-carbon’ energy.

Why do we have to give up the ‘clean’ part, while we can keep it?

An Excellent 2019 Book for Studying Pathways to Achieve the Goals of the Paris Agreement

I found an excellent book for studying pathways to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Its contents are excellent, of course. In addition, it is an open access book (CC BY 4.0).

Before formally introducing the book, I want to make it clear: What are the goals of the Paris Agreement? The most important of the goals is:
"Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change"

I didn't read the whole book yet. But those figures and tables I've flipped through tell us reasonable but urgent conclusions.

The book:

Sven Teske. (Ed.). (2019). Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals: Global and Regional 100% Renewable Energy Scenarios with Non-energy GHG Pathways for +1.5°C and +2°C. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. [Full-text at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05843-2]

Contents

1 Introduction.................................................... 1
Sven Teske and Thomas Pregger

2 State of Research............................................... 5
Sven Teske, Malte Meinshausen, and Kate Dooley

3 Methodology.................................................... 25
Sven Teske, Thomas Pregger, Sonja Simon, Tobias Naegler,
Johannes Pagenkopf, Bent van den Adel, Malte Meinshausen,
Kate Dooley, C. Briggs, E. Dominish, D. Giurco, Nick Florin,
Tom Morris, and Kriti Nagrath

4 Mitigation Scenarios for Non-energy GHG........................ 79
Malte Meinshausen and Kate Dooley

5 Main Assumptions for Energy Pathways........................... 93
Thomas Pregger, Sonja Simon, Tobias Naegler, and Sven Teske

6 Transport Transition Concepts................................. 131
Johannes Pagenkopf, Bent van den Adel, Özcan Deniz,
and Stephan Schmid

7 Renewable Energy Resource Assessment.......................... 161
Sven Teske, Kriti Nagrath, Tom Morris, and Kate Dooley

8 Energy Scenario Results....................................... 175
Sven Teske, Thomas Pregger, Tobias Naegler, Sonja Simon,
Johannes Pagenkopf, Bent van den Adel, and Özcan Deniz

9 Trajectories for a Just Transition of the Fossil Fuel Industry 403
Sven Teske

10 Just Transition: Employment Projections for the 2.0°C
and 1.5°C Scenarios............................................. 413
Elsa Dominish, Chris Briggs, Sven Teske, and Franziska Mey

11 Requirements for Minerals and Metals for 100%
Renewable Scenarios............................................. 437
Damien Giurco, Elsa Dominish, Nick Florin, Takuma Watari,
and Benjamin McLellan

12 Implications of the Developed Scenarios for Climate
Change.......................................................... 459
Malte Meinshausen

13 Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations.................. 471
Sven Teske, Thomas Pregger, Johannes Pagenkopf,
Bent van den Adel, Özcan Deniz, Malte Meinshausen,
and Damien Giurco

Annex........................................................... 489

Cost of Energy Comparison, Including Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE)—2019 Update

I updated the list in a new post for the year of 2020. Please move to the post cited below.

Park, H. (2020). Cost of Energy Comparison, Including Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE)—2020 Update. Energy and Ecology. https://j.mp/LCOE-2020