Editorial: Climate change, embedded energy and uncertainty

摘要

Conversion of resources for human energy needs is the major contributor to climate change. Those conversions help create goods and services and, in so doing, embed the emissions from resource conversion, such as released CO_2, in what we consume. The papers in this issue are further examples of the technology needed to change from the 'business as usual' of energy conversion, but are dependent on political will and the legal value placed on avoiding anthropogenic emissions.rnRecently, global climate change consensus has been set in the context of the Conference of the Parties at Copenhagen (United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 15) in December 2009, the outcomes of which were expected to help clarify national and business decision making.