Challenges and Solutions for Climate Change

02.01.2013

Englisch

9781447126027

Springer London

Green Energy and Technology

Nein

Wytze van der Gaast, Katherine Begg

162

Broschiert

Wytze van der Gaast has worked on climate policy development especially on greenhouse gas accounting issues and technology transfer. He participated in several capacity building projects in developing countries on project-based emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol. He was coordinator of the EU-funded project Promoting Sustainable Energy Technology Transfers through the CDM: Converting from a Theoretical Concept to Practical Action (ENTTRANS). Together with Dr Begg, he worked for the UN Development Programme on updating the Handbook for Conducting Technology Needs Assessments for Climate Change. He has also been an advisor to the UN Environment Programme and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is on the UNFCCC Roster of Experts. Katie Begg was a principal lecturer at the Institute of Energy and sustainable development (IESD) at De Montfort University before moving to Edinburgh University as a senior research fellow. She has worked on energy and climate policy, particularly the Clean Development Mechanism, technology transfer and development and decision analysis for a number of years. She was a collaborator in the ENTTRANS project described above on technology transfer and co-author on the Technology Needs Assessment handbook for UNDP, an official reviewer for the IPCC TAR and was on the UNFCCC Roster of Experts.

CP8059, Climate Change, Energy Demand, Low-Carbon Technology, Sustainable Development, Technology Transfer, Climate change management

KCVG - Umweltökonomie RBP - Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung) KJD - Management: Innovation RNU - Nachhaltigkeit THV - Alternative und erneuerbare Energiequellen und -technik RN - Umwelt

235 mm

15.5 cm