Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation

Report

IPCC, 2011 – Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Kristin Seyboth, Patrick Matschoss, Susanne Kadner, Timm Zwickel, Patrick Eickemeier, Gerrit Hansen, Steffen Schloemer, Christoph von Stechow (Eds.)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 1075 pp.Available from Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU ENGLAND

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Full Report
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Summary for Policymakers
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Technical Summary

Chapters

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Renewable Energy and Climate Change
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Direct Solar Energy
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Geothermal Energy
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Integration of Renewable Energy into Present and Future Energy Systems
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Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development
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Mitigation Potential and Costs
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Policy, Financing and Implementation

Annexes/Index

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Glossary, Acronyms, Chemical Symbols and Prefixes
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Recent Renewable Energy Cost and Performance Parameters
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Contributors to the IPCC Special Report
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Reviewers of the IPCC Special Report
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Permissions to Publish
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Presentation

SPM in UN and other languages

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Drafts and Review Materials

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Summary for Policymakers

Second Order Draft (SOD) / SOD Review / Final Draft

Technical Summary

Second Order Draft (SOD) / SOD Review / Final Draft*

* The final draft of the Technical Summary and SRREN chapters are as they appear in the final SRREN. They can be found above.

General comments for the entire document 

First Order Draft (FOD) / FOD Review / SOD Draft /SOD Review

Chapter 1 – Renewable Energy and Climate Change

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 2 – Bioenergy

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 3 – Direct Solar Energy

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 4 – Geothermal Energy

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 5 – Hydropower

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 6 Ocean Energy

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 7 Wind Energy

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 8 – Integration of Renewable Energy into Present and Future Energy Systems

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 9 – Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Voluntary government distribution for Chapter 9 : Draft / Review

Chapter 10 Mitigation Potential and Costs

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review

Chapter 11 Policy, Financing and Implementation

FOD Draft / FOD Review / SOD Draft / SOD Review