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Published in A.P.H. Peters, Concise Chemical Thermodynamics, 2010
Global warming, security of supply, and local air quality are strong driving forces to change the present energy system. Given the huge global demand for energy, no single solution can be imagined to make this energy supply more efficient, less carbon intensive, and more sustainable (i.e., using renewable sources to a large extent). The supplies of fossil fuels are limited. Nonrenewable energy sources do, as their name suggests, run out. Apart from their impact on global warming, they are finite. Based on the data we have today, we can predict the moment they are actually exhausted. Putting a date on these energy sources underscores the world’s need for true sustainable energy sources, as given in Table 1.4 [4].
Interconnecting sustainable development goals 7 and 13: the role of renewable energy innovations towards combating the climate change
Published in Environmental Technology, 2023
Hafiz Waqas Kamran, Mujahid Rafiq, Anas Abudaqa, Azka Amin
Researching and developing less carbon-intensive and environmentally sound technologies are expected to be more efficient in resources by boosting the production and consumption of cleaner energy. In this connection, Altıntaş and Kassouri [10] optimize the nonlinear effect of energy technology, research, development, and demonstration on the carbon footprints and cleaner energy supply. Data were collected from 1985 to 2016 while controlling the effect of trade openness and economic growth. The empirical findings state that increasing public support for energy technology, research, development, and demonstration is associated with reducing carbon footprints. Moreover, the authors claim that knowledge of the asymmetric association between public energy technology innovation, renewable energy, and carbon footprints is a starting point to achieve a win-win output towards environmental sustainability and green energy. Zhao et al. [11] investigate a linkage between energy innovations, natural resources, and environmental sustainability in G7 economies through Cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) estimation. The study results indicate that eco-innovations are negatively and significantly linked with the EFP, whereas natural resources have a positive linkage. Ahmed et al. [12] have controlled the effect of financial development and income for G7 while investigating the role of renewable energy technologies on the EFP. Data were collected during 1985-2017 and empirically tested. The results show that financial development and renewable energy technology reduce the EFP in G7 economies.