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Peter Ellah

The Contribution of Renewable Energy

New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times BestsellerA "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires on the ground as an LA native."Read[s] like a sci-fi thriller.” —Los Angeles TimesOn the morning of January 7, 2025, a message pinged the phone of Jacob Soboroff, a national reporter for MS NOW. “Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating,” his brother texted within minutes of the blaze engulfing the hillside behind the home where he and his pregnant wife were living. “Really bad.” An attached photo showed a huge black plume rising from behind the house, an umbrella of smoke towering over everything they owned. Jacob rushed to the office of the bureau chief.“I should go. I grew up in the Palisades.”Soon he was on the front line of the blaze—his first live report of what would turn out to be weeks covering unimaginable destruction, from both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, in Altadena. In the days to come, Soboroff appeared across the networks of NBC News as Los Angeles was ablaze, met with displaced residents and workers, and pressed Governor Gavin Newsom in an interview on Meet the Press. But no story Soboroff has covered at home or abroad—the trauma of family separation at the border, the displacement of the war in Ukraine, the collapse of order in Haiti—could have prepared him for reporting live as the hallmarks of his childhood were engulfed in flames around him while his hometown burned to the ground.But for Soboroff, questions remained after the fires were controlled: what had he just witnessed? How could it have happened? Is it inevitable something like it will happen again? This set Soboroff off on months of reporting—with firefighters, fire victims, political leaders, academics, earth scientists, wildlife biologists, meteorologists and more—that made him keenly aware of how the misfortune of seeing his past carbonize was also a form of time travel into the dystopian world his children will inhabit. This is because the 2025 LA fires were not an isolated tragedy, but rather they are a harbinger—"the fire of the future," in the words of one senior emergency—management official.Firestorm is the story of the costliest wildfire in American history, the people it affected and the deeply personal connection to one journalist covering it. It is a love letter to Los Angeles, a yearning to understand the fires, and why America’s new age of disaster we are living through portends that—without a reckoning of how Los Angeles burned—there is more yet, and worse, to come.

New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires on the ground as an LA native. "Read[s] like a sci-fi thriller.” —Los Angeles TimesOn the morning of January 7, 2025, a message pinged the phone of Jacob Soboroff, a national reporter for MS NOW. “Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating,” his brother texted within minutes of the blaze engulfing the hillside behind the home where he and his pregnant wife were living. “Really bad.” An attached photo showed a huge black plume rising from behind the house, an umbrella of smoke towering over everything they owned. Jacob rushed to the office of the bureau chief. “I should go. I grew up in the Palisades.” Soon he was on the front line of the blaze—his first live report of what would turn out to be weeks covering unimaginable destruction, from both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, in Altadena. In the days to come, Soboroff appeared across the networks of NBC News as Los Angeles was ablaze, met with displaced residents and workers, and pressed Governor Gavin Newsom in an interview on Meet the Press. But no story Soboroff has covered at home or abroad—the trauma of family separation at the border, the displacement of the war in Ukraine, the collapse of order in Haiti—could have prepared him for reporting live as the hallmarks of his childhood were engulfed in flames around him while his hometown burned to the ground. But for Soboroff, questions remained after the fires were controlled: what had he just witnessed? How could it have happened? Is it inevitable something like it will happen again? This set Soboroff off on months of reporting—with firefighters, fire victims, political leaders, academics, earth scientists, wildlife biologists, meteorologists and more—that made him keenly aware of how the misfortune of seeing his past carbonize was also a form of time travel into the dystopian world his children will inhabit. This is because the 2025 LA fires were not an isolated tragedy, but rather they are a harbinger—"the fire of the future," in the words of one senior emergency—management official. Firestorm is the story of the costliest wildfire in American history, the people it affected and the deeply personal connection to one journalist covering it. It is a love letter to Los Angeles, a yearning to understand the fires, and why America’s new age of disaster we are living through portends that—without a reckoning of how Los Angeles burned—there is more yet, and worse, to come.

The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster

Firestorm

The Mining Rush in the 21st Century is a geopolitical analysis that explains how the global energy transition and the digital revolution are creating massive demand for strategic metals such as lithium and cobalt, forcing humanity to extract more resources in 25 years than in its entire history to combat global warming, while highlighting the risks of dependence, environmental challenges, and opportunities for Africa. The book covers a broad spectrum, from the urgency of time with a critical window of action closing in 2030 to the vulnerabilities of supply chains, dominated by China (85% of rare earths) and the DRC (70% of cobalt). It highlights the paradox of the green transition: to save the planet from global warming metals must be extracted on a massive scale, posing colossal technical, environmental, social, and ethical challenges. The scope extends to technological innovation (AI in prospecting, seabed mining), Africa's pivotal role in sustainable development beyond the colonial extractive model, and projections up to 2050. Aimed at a diverse audience-researchers, students, decision-makers and NGOs-the book includes more than 50 graphs, case studies, expert boxes, and a glossary for accessibility. It stands out for its holistic approach, combining field expertise, quantitative data (IEA, USGS), and concrete solutions for responsible governance, bridging the gap between geopolitical and technical analyses. It also anticipates post-2025 trends to guide the securing of global supplies.

Dynamics and Outlooks for 2050

The Mining Rush in the 21st Century

Cut through complexity with CLEAR strategies - simplify clean energy decisions, gain clarity, and build resilience to drive your business forward. Small businesses help local economies grow, create jobs, and support communities. They quickly adapt to market changes with fresh ideas and new products. Many now focus on clean energy and sustainability to save money, stay strong, meet customer demands, and follow government rules. But business leaders face challenges, such as limited funds, lack of technical know-how, and fear of risk. These hurdles make it hard to pick the right clean energy options and upgrade systems in a fast-changing market. This book presents a CLEAR -- a simple, five-step -- framework to guide small business leaders in making smart clean energy decisions tailored to their operations.

A Clear Guide for Small Business Decision-Makers

Resetting Our Future - Navigating Clean Energy Choices

The case for nuclear energy as the foundation of the AI revolution - and our future In The Smiling Atom: How We Learned to Love Nuclear Energy, and Why You Should, Too, physicist-entrepreneur Stefano Buono and journalist Peter Vanham argue that the AI-driven "fourth industrial revolution" depends on a nuclear energy renaissance. Combining science, history, business strategy, and personal narrative, their dual perspective reframes nuclear technology as a future-facing solution for clean energy, medical innovation, and broad-based prosperity. The Smiling Atom weaves two distinct threads: Buono's scientific journey from a decade of research at CERN with Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia to founding pharmaceutical startup Advanced Accelerator Applications, sold to Novartis for $3.9 billion, and now leading next-generation reactor company newcleo; alongside Vanham's evolution from a nuclear-skeptic to informed believer. Together they deliver technical authority and narrative credibility. Readers will also discover: <ul> <li>How nuclear energy can be a solution to the massive and growing power demands of artificial intelligence infrastructure - without driving up prices for everyone else</li> <li>The science of nuclear waste transmutation and next-generation reactor designs that address longstanding safety and environmental concerns</li> <li>Buono's path from CERN physicist to founding a pharmaceutical startup sold to Novartis for $3.9 billion</li> <li>How well-known anti-nuclear movements in Europe and North America shaped public opinion and why that consensus is now shifting across society - and especially Gen Z</li> <li>The role nuclear medicine plays in healthcare innovation and why energy and medical applications share common scientific foundations</li> </ul> Written for business, finance, policy, climate, and technology audiences in Europe and the United States, The Smiling Atom offers a persuasive, evidence-based argument for readers seeking to understand why nuclear energy has reemerged as central to economic growth, clean power, and technological progress.

How We Learned to Love Nuclear Energy, and Why You Should, Too

The Smiling Atom

Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

This edited collection examines the intersection of green culture and organizational sustainability within the African context, offering a comprehensive exploration of how eco-friendly practices, values, and leadership can drive sustainable development. Through interdisciplinary research and case studies, the book provides actionable insights into fostering environmental stewardship, integrating green technologies, and addressing challenges such as greenwashing, regulatory inconsistencies, and resistance to change. Contributions from leading scholars across Africa bridge the gap between theory and practice, presenting innovative strategies to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and advance the circular economy. Readers will benefit from diverse topics, including green hydrogen initiatives, AI-enabled data governance, sustainable supply chain management, and eco-friendly marketing. The book highlights practical solutions for embedding green culture into organizational strategies, promoting employee engagement, and leveraging technology for sustainable innovation. By combining empirical research with theoretical frameworks, it equips readers with tools to navigate the complexities of sustainability in emerging economies. Designed for academics, researchers, postgraduate students, and professionals in business, environmental science, and public policy, this volume is an essential resource for understanding and implementing sustainable practices in Africa and beyond. Its unique focus on the African perspective makes it a valuable addition to global sustainability discourse.

Green Culture and Organisational Sustainability in Africa

The Sustainability Conundrum: Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development investigates how a clean environment and mitigation of Global Climate Change will affect the UN's sustainability goals for development, poverty elimination, and inequality reduction. The book covers the necessity of energy use for humans, the global demand and the supply of energy, and the environmental challenges of energy consumption.Outlining the interconnections between four of the UN goals, the book discusses the Global Climate Change problem by explaining how the scientific community eradicated other global environmental threats, such as acid rain, lead contamination, and the ozone hole. It establishes the uniqueness of Global Climate Change; evaluates proposed methods and "roadmaps" to achieve meaningful carbon dioxide emissions reductions; computes the cost of the necessary infrastructure for their implementation on a regional and a global scale; and draws conclusions about the implementation of the proposed energy transition and the sustainability goals for the elimination of poverty and reduction of inequalities within and among nations.This book is intended for students of sustainability initiatives and any readers interested in the ongoing challenges surrounding sustainability and global economic development.

Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development

The Sustainability Conundrum

Palgrave Studies in African and Development Economics

This book explores the diverse nature of Chinese manufacturing activity in Ethiopia and highlights how investments can be guided by local political economy conditions. It examines the economic potential of foreign direct investment and its role in facilitating structural change within African economies. The approaches taken by Ethiopia to steer investment towards development objectives are compared with global trends of industrial relocation and corporate adaptation to illustrate how foreign direct investment can benefit both China and African countries. Ethiopia’s proactive industrial policies are highlighted to show that African states can leverage Chinese manufacturing capital to enable industrial development and economic growth.
This book provides unique detail into the specific strategies used in Ethiopia to maximise foreign development and drive economic development. It will be relevant to students, researchers and policymakers interested in development economics, industrial policy, and the international political economy.

This book explores the diverse nature of Chinese manufacturing activity in Ethiopia and highlights how investments can be guided by local political economy conditions. It examines the economic potential of foreign direct investment and its role in facilitating structural change within African economies. The approaches taken by Ethiopia to steer investment towards development objectives are compared with global trends of industrial relocation and corporate adaptation to illustrate how foreign direct investment can benefit both China and African countries. Ethiopia’s proactive industrial policies are highlighted to show that African states can leverage Chinese manufacturing capital to enable industrial development and economic growth.This book provides unique detail into the specific strategies used in Ethiopia to maximise foreign development and drive economic development. It will be relevant to students, researchers and policymakers interested in development economics, industrial policy, and the international political economy.

Firm Diversity and the Political Economy of Investment

Chinese Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia

In 2025, humanity crossed a threshold that will reshape civilization. For the first time in the industrial age, clean energy sources accounted for nearly all new electrical capacity globally, marking the peak and the beginning of the permanent, structural decline of fossil fuel generation. An inflection point from which there is no return. This book explains how we arrived at this historic turning point and why the transition is now unstoppable.
The renewable revolution is not driven by environmental virtue or political mandates. It's not tree hugging or saving the earth. Instead, it's powered by fundamental economics. Solar power has become 41 percent cheaper than the lowest-cost fossil fuel option globally, while onshore wind is 53 percent cheaper. These aren't theoretical projections, but market realities reflected in power purchase agreements signed worldwide. The economics follow Wright's Law; a principle discovered in 1936 showing that manufacturing costs decline predictably with production scale. For over four decades, solar panel prices have fallen 20 percent with each doubling of installed capacity. Wright's Law is how we got from room sized computers costs millions to smartphones costing hundreds.Fossil fuels can't compete economically because they are extracted, not manufactured, and their cost goes up as reserves are depleted.
Inflection Point examines this global transition through multiple lenses: China's emergence as the renewable superpower, Europe's proven model for grid integration, America's fragmented but advancing approach, and the Global South's ability to leapfrog traditional energy infrastructure entirely. It explores political opposition head-on while exploring the technologies-from solar and wind to storage and smart grids-that make reliable, fully renewable power grids possible.
The renewable future is not utopian fantasy but is the inevitable, logical endpoint of current trajectories: a world where electricity powers transportation, heating, industry, and agriculture; where air pollution deaths decline dramatically and where true energy independence reduces geopolitical tensions. The only choice is the timing of the transition.
This is a book about beginning of the renewable energy age and why it cannot be stopped.

How the Transition to Renewable Energy Became Inevitable

Inflection Point

This book investigates some of the key economic and societal transitions that define our contemporary world. Analysing financial contagion during crises, shifts in macro-financial linkages, transformations in gender equality and industrial structures, or the potential of fintech to foster intergenerational mobility, the authors seek to illustrate the forces reshaping economic systems and societal outcomes in emerging and industrialized countries. Particular attention is given to the relationship between Europe and Asia, with insights into the structural changes, including deindustrialization, energy transition, and gender inequality, seen within these parts of the world. The conference offered a space for lively debate and critical reflection on the varied but interconnected ways economies and societies have responded to new global conditions. The book can be read as a contribution to broader academic and policy debates. The book will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in international economics and economic policy.
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Gilles Dufrénot is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Aix and AMSE and Associate Researcher to the CEPII. His research topics covers growth and international economics.
Takashi Matsuki is Professor of Economics at Ryukoku University. His main topics covers policy-oriented issues and applied econometrics.

Financial Markets, Structural Change and Economic Development

Challenges of Global Economic and Social Transformations

This two-volume edited collection explores how the rapid advancement of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and the platform economy is challenging international tax systems to adapt to a new economic reality. In an economic world characterized by increased capital mobility, complex cross-border flows and smart business models, while practices such as base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) are simultaneously reducing states' tax revenues and amplifying pressures on governments to rethink the global tax architecture, the book provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of the impact of the digital transformation on global taxation.
The book draws on research from around the globe to identify current gaps and propose concrete solutions to develop sustainable, equitable and resilient tax frameworks. One of the book's most compelling insights is its critical analysis of traditional paradigms of taxation that were designed for an industrial economy based on tangible assets and physical presence. The book demonstrates that these concepts are outdated in today's context, where economic value is predominantly created through data, intellectual property and platform-based business models. At the same time, the contributions explore the limitations of possible solutions, paying specific attention to their varying effectiveness between developed and emerging economies. This is a vital resource for economists, researchers and tax professionals in understanding and implementing tax systems that are fair, efficient and adaptable to new economic realities.
Costinela Fortea is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania. She is a member of prestigious academic organizations such as the European Regional Science Association and the Regional Science Association International. Her research focuses on finance, taxation, energy and environmental economics, and public policy, with particular interest in how fiscal and regulatory frameworks shape sustainable economic development. 
Valentin Marian Antohi is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania. With more than 26 years of academic and professional experience, he is an active member of prestigious academic associations, including the European Regional Science Association and the Regional Science Association International. His research areas cover a wide range of topics including financial and economic analysis, accounting, taxation, international taxation, tax policy, health services, rural and regional development and agricultural economics.
Firdous Ahmad Malik&nbsp;is &nbsp;Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Management, University of People, US. Previously he was a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in Delhi, India, and Senior Research Associate at the O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat.

This two-volume edited collection explores how the rapid advancement of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and the platform economy is challenging international tax systems to adapt to a new economic reality. In an economic world characterized by increased capital mobility, complex cross-border flows and smart business models, while practices such as base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) are simultaneously reducing states' tax revenues and amplifying pressures on governments to rethink the global tax architecture, the book provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of the impact of the digital transformation on global taxation.The book draws on research from around the globe to identify current gaps and propose concrete solutions to develop sustainable, equitable and resilient tax frameworks. One of the book's most compelling insights is its critical analysis of traditional paradigms of taxation that were designed for an industrial economy based on tangible assets and physical presence. The book demonstrates that these concepts are outdated in today's context, where economic value is predominantly created through data, intellectual property and platform-based business models. At the same time, the contributions explore the limitations of possible solutions, paying specific attention to their varying effectiveness between developed and emerging economies. This is a vital resource for economists, researchers and tax professionals in understanding and implementing tax systems that are fair, efficient and adaptable to new economic realities.

The Impact of the Digital Economy

Redefining Global Taxation Frameworks in the Era of Digital Transformation, Volume I

The Contribution of Renewable Energy

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