Patterns And Mechanisms of Climate Paleoclimate And Paleoenvironmental Changes From Lowlatitude Regions

An urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The Seven Warning Signs of Rising Populism is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – before it's too late. 'It couldn't happen here' Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote.

Editors: Grammelis, Panagiotis (Ed.)
Addresses current issues and challenges posed by global warming and climate change
Covers energy-related issues across many engineering disciplines–from renewables to fossil fuels and carbon capture
Addresses the effects and intricacies of air, land and maritime transport–from greenhouse gas emission calculations to assessing the resiliency of multimodal transport networks

Our climate is changing. Less certain, however, is the timing and magnitude of climate change, and the cost of transition to a low-carbon world. This book identifies how climate change policy uncertainty may affect investment behaviour in the power sector. For power companies, where capital stock is intensive and long-lived, those risks rank among the biggest and can create an incentive to delay investment.