A large-scale shift in the sources that power a society: wood to coal, coal to oil and gas, and today fossil fuels to low-carbon electricity, renewables and nuclear, driven by climate policy as much as economics. Historians such as Vaclav Smil stress that past transitions took generations, which frames the central debate about the present one: whether policy and falling technology costs can compress a process that has never before been fast.
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Concept DomainEnergy history and policy 1 Formulated YearThe German term Energiewende, meaning energy transition, first appeared in the title of a 1980 publication by the Oko-Institut calling for abandoning nuclear and petroleum energy; the English phrase this atlas uses traces to that German coinage. Connections
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The term Energiewende was first contained in the title of a 1980 publication by Oko-Institut, calling for the complete abandonment of nuclear and petroleum energy.
Associated With: Energy Access, Description section
lack of access to modern energy services in the home
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Emission IndexAssociated With: Kyoto Protocol, Policy, Kyoto Protocol, openingQuote, Associated With: Kyoto Protocol, Policy, Kyoto Protocol, opening
It set legally binding emission reduction targets for developed countries
Emission intensity (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Carbon Intensity, IntroductionQuote, Associated With: Carbon Intensity, Introduction
An emission intensity (also carbon intensity or C.I.) is the emission rate of a given pollutant relative to the intensity of a specific activity
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