Contents: Preface Introduction to transforming energy systems -- Part I. Modernity, the climate and net zero emissions -- 1. Energy capture and modernity -- 2. Useful energy and the climate -- 3. Net zero emissions and low-carbon alternatives -- Part II. Advancing and guiding low-carbon...

Over the next three decades, emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), and especially middle-income countries, are projected to account for much of the growth in global economic activity and energy use. While a decisive move to low-carbon technologies and energy efficiency would advance...