R.A. Roehrl

Achieving a Sustainable Global Energy System

Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustainable energy systems, based on an analysis of global climate change issues using the concept of sustainable development. The authors focus on environmentally compatible, long-term technology developments within the global energy system, while also considering aspects of economic and social sustainability.

Energy-economy-environment scenarios at IIASA-ECS

In this chapter we describe general characteristics of energy-economy- environment scenarios. We characterize three groups of scenarios (high-impact, mitigation, and sustainable-development). We then characterize SD scenarios in more detail by comparing ranges of key variables (driving forces and results) of SD scenarios with ranges of the same variables chosen from the IPCC-SRES database of scenarios.