green transition Concepts

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder · 30 Jan 2024 · 355pp · 133,726 words

Americans had been massacred in the nineteenth century. Considering all of this, Du said, would take time, a bad sign for Lithium Americas.38 “The green transition is just all about money. There’s no talks about the environment, or endangered species, or how damaging all this will be for the ecosystem

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words

treated as sacrosanct, however, what then is the safety valve for unsustainable debt or unexpected costs in the future (say, for emergency defense needs, the green transition, or a presidential administration gone off the rails)? Austerity? Financial repression (forced holdings of debt at low interest rates)? Outright default? Mind you, there was

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instituted significant tariffs that his successor Joe Biden maintained and amplified through a muscular industrial policy with strong made-in-America requirements to tap new green transition subsidies. During the 2024 election campaign, Donald Trump proposed instituting average tariff rates above those of India and Brazil, the two most protectionist major economies

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is supremely important to the world, though the IMF climate protestors vastly overrate the Fed’s place in the hierarchy of institutions dealing with the green transition. This is not to mention the limits of the Fed’s instruments and the tight boundaries within which it is free to act independently of

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the case of the ECB, it is following a very clear directive from its constituent governments that Europe aims to be a leader in the green transition.13 This is simply not the case in the United States, at least for now.14 Academic economists continue to take up with relish the

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Charles Goodhart has emphasized.9 Old-age entitlements and rising debt-service costs will increasingly dominate spending, reducing space for other expenditures such as the green transition, defense, infrastructure, and education and training. Politicians are always saying that they plan to cut discretionary spending, yet there is not much room left to

The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words

poisoned in Indonesia in the search for metals like nickel and how China consolidated control of the supply chain. Seen from this vantage point, the green transition looks more like a displacement of pollution from wealthy cities to poor, rural communities. Part 5 explores how remarkable new technologies have been created to

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its best face: Among the sparring Chinese and U.S. elephants, European leaders were trying to position their countries to best take advantage of the green transition. A light drizzle washed over the fields and parking lots outside the Berlin airport hotel. Two of the investors were sitting down for breakfast, having

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words

less fossil fuel they will import from West Asia. As oil and gas prices decline, therefore, Asia’s largest energy producers are themselves accelerating their green transitions so that they can maximize their export revenues and spend less on domestic fuel subsidies they can no longer afford. With funding from Japan’s

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words

to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement and stop global warming at a level well below 2°C. Globally, the total cost of a green transition would be half of what was spent on stimulus in 2020, and yet, even in the midst of all that spending, the world couldn’t

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross · 19 Nov 2020 · 197pp · 53,831 words

do precisely this, arguing that the huge amounts of money spent on recovering from the coronavirus should deliver new jobs and businesses through a clean, green transition. In addition, the UN said, where taxpayers’ money had been used to save companies from going bust, it should be tied to achieving green jobs

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg · 1 Jun 2011 · 372pp · 107,587 words

Solar Age. — HAZEL HENDERSON, author, The Politics of the Solar Age (1981) and other books, President of Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) and its Green Transition Scoreboard® Dig into this book! It is crammed full of ideas, information and perspective on where our troubled world is headed—a Baedeker for the

Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

by Antti Ilmanen · 24 Feb 2022

Halvorsen; Tone Hanstad; Karin Thorburn; and Thomas Ekeli (2021), “Climate risk and the Government Pension Fund Global: Managing risks associated with climate change and the green transition,” Report from an expert group appointed by the Ministry of Finance in www.regjeringen.no. Sloan, Richard G. (1996), “Do stock prices fully reflect information

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

by J. Doyne Farmer · 24 Apr 2024 · 406pp · 114,438 words

this precisely – that is, the firms will be recognizable companies, realistically headquartered in specific countries. This module allows us to envision possible scenarios for the green transition in great detail, as well as to track carbon emissions comprehensively and accurately.9 The Energy Systems Module provides detailed techno-economic predictions about the

Smart Grid Standards

by Takuro Sato · 17 Nov 2015

Scenario Outlook and Adequacy Forecast (SO&AF) 2012–2030. In SO&AF 2012–2030, four visions for 2030 have been specified: Slow Progress, Money Rules, Green Transitions, and Green Revolution. These four visions are different enough from each other to capture realistic future pathways and challenges. There will be more than 100