The Geopolitics of Energy System Transformation, livre ebook

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Our global energy system needs radical and speedy transformation in order to meet climate change targets. This shift is currently conceived in two ways: a ‘high carbon transition’ away from fossil fuels and a ‘low carbon transition’, the development of a low carbon energy system. This accessible book guides us through the 'messy mix', the perilous ground that sits between the present and the future energy systems.

Evidence-based and solutions-focused, this is a novel framework to help manage geopolitical challenges and enable a swift, just, orderly and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.

1. Introduction

2. Energy Futures, Geopolitics and the Messy Mix

3. Fossil Fuel Geopolitics

4. The Resource Curse Revisited, Rentier States and Unburnable Carbon

5. The Geopolitics of the Low-Carbon Transition

6. Managing the Messy Mix