James Skea
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James "Jim" Ferguson Skea CBE FRSE is a British academic. He is currently Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its seventh assessment cycle, and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London. Before being elected as Chair, Skea was Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC. He was a founding member of the UK Government's Committee on Climate Change and currently chairs Scotland's Just Transition Commission. He was a co-author of the IPCC 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C. In July 2023, Skea was elected as Chair the IPCC.
James Skea's Published Works
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Published Works
- Global warming of 1.5°C: Summary for policy makers (2018) (287)
- A realistic stellar model based on an ansatz of Duorah and Ray (1989) (178)
- Policies and practices for a low-carbon society (2008) (146)
- Acid Politics: Environmental and Energy Policies in Britain and Germany (1991) (107)
- Environmental management systems and company performance: assessing the case for extending risk‐based regulation (2003) (103)
- Solving second-order ordinary differential equations by extending the Prelle-Singer method (2001) (100)
- Building a Resilient UK Energy System (2011) (96)
- Roadmap 2050: A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe, European Climate Foundation (2010). (2012) (95)
- Clean and Competitive: Motivating Environmental Performance in Industry (1997) (77)
- The UK Energy System in 2050: Comparing Low-Carbon, Resilient Scenarios (2013) (74)
- Renewables and the grid: understanding intermittency (2007) (72)
- Intermittent renewable generation and the cost of maintaining power system reliability (2008) (68)
- Standards, innovation and competitiveness : the politics and economics of standards in natural and technical environments (1995) (43)
- STANDARDS, INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS (1995) (38)
- Business and the genesis of the European Community carbon tax proposal (1994) (36)
- Research and evidence needs for decarbonisation in the built environment: a UK case study (2012) (36)
- Measuring the energy innovation process: An indicator framework and a case study of wind energy in China (2018) (36)
- Valuing diversity in energy supply (2010) (33)
- The role of gas infrastructure in promoting UK energy security (2012) (33)
- The invariant classification of conformally flat pure radiation spacetimes (1997) (31)
- The uk energy research centre review of the costs and impacts of intermittency (2012) (30)
- An extension of the Prelle–Singer method and a Maple implementation☆ (2002) (29)
- Nonlinear stability analysis in a equilateral restricted four-body problem (2015) (27)
- Classifying geometries in general relativity: I. Standard forms for symmetric spinors (2000) (26)
- Input–output and life-cycle emissions accounting: applications in the real world (2014) (23)
- Is big really better (1989) (23)
- Environmental Issues and Innovation (1995) (21)
- The Global Surge in Energy Innovation (2014) (20)
- UK Energy Policy and Institutions (2012) (19)
- Remaking the UK's energy technology innovation system: From the margins to the mainstream (2014) (19)
- Climate policies after Fukushima: three views (2013) (19)
- Classifying geometries in general relativity: III. Classification in practice (2000) (18)
- Outlooks, explorations and normative scenarios: Approaches to global energy futures compared (2021) (18)
- Controlling acid deposition: the role of FGD. (1986) (16)
- Innovation, Insurability and Sustainable Development: Sharing Risk Management between Insurers and the State (2003) (16)
- The renaissance of energy innovation (2014) (15)
- Examining the Effectiveness of Support for UK Wave Energy Innovation since 2000: Lost at Sea or a New Wave of Innovation? (2017) (15)
- Structural Change, Sector Disaggregation and Electricity Consumption in uk Industry (1994) (15)
- A spacetime whose invariant classification requires the fifth covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor (2000) (15)
- Pollution for Sale (1999) (14)
- Facilitating and coordinating UK energy innovation through systemic innovation intermediaries (2014) (14)
- Mitigation co-benefits of climate change adaptation: A case-study analysis of eight cities (2021) (14)
- Integrating pollution control (1998) (13)
- The development and use of the UK environmental futures scenarios: perspectives from cultural theory (2002) (13)
- The Development and Use of the UK Environmental Futures Scenarios (2002) (12)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Transparency and integrated assessment modeling (2021) (12)
- Cold comfort in a high carbon society? (2009) (12)
- Accelerating the Development of Energy Supply Technologies: The Role of Research and Innovation (2011) (12)
- Inhomogeneous perfect fluid cosmologies (1992) (12)
- Climate policies in a changing world context: is a paradigm shift needed? (2013) (11)
- Presentation of the UKCIP socio-economic scenarios for climate change impact assessment (2001) (10)
- Building a low-carbon economy: The inaugural report of the UK Committee on Climate Change (2009) (10)
- Classifying geometries in general relativity: II. Spinor tools (2000) (10)
- Deposits and repositories: Electricity wastes in the UK and West Germany (1989) (10)
- Building a Resilient UK Energy System: Working paper (2009) (10)
- An algorithm for determining whether a space-time is homothetic (1998) (9)
- Energy Policies and the Greenhouse Effect: Volume 2: Country Studies and Technical Options (1993) (8)
- Physical impacts of climate change (1992) (7)
- A Potential Problem in Cosmology (1991) (7)
- Type N spacetimes whose invariant classifications require the fourth covariant derivative of the Riemann tensor (1997) (7)
- Strengthening decision-making for sustainable development (1999) (7)
- Cosmological models expressible as gradient vector fields (1996) (7)
- UK Energy in an Era of Globalization: Trends, Technologies and Environmental Impacts (2012) (7)
- On the integrability of Friedmann–Robertson–Walker models with conformally coupled massive scalar fields (2008) (6)
- European pressures and emission prospects (1988) (6)
- Numerical evolution of general Robinson-Trautman spacetimes: Code tests, wave forms, and the efficiency of the gravitational wave extraction (2011) (6)
- On the non-integrability of a class of hamiltonian cosmological models (2005) (6)
- Sustainable business organisations (2003) (6)
- Environmental issues facing the oil industry (1992) (6)
- The automorphism groups for Bianchi universe models and computer-aided invariant classification of metrics (1988) (6)
- Finding isometry groups in theory and practice (1992) (6)
- Optimization of Coal Beneficiation Plans for SO2 Emissions Control (1988) (6)
- UK innovation support for energy demand reduction (2014) (5)
- Energy Innovation for the Twenty-First Century (2019) (5)
- Gravitational collapse of scalar fields via spectral methods (2010) (5)
- Modelling UK energy system response to natural gas supply infrastructure failures (2012) (5)
- Automorphisms in action: spatially homogeneous Einstein-Maxwell plane waves (1988) (5)
- Switching from oil to coal firing for steam raising A case study at a large industrial site (1981) (5)
- The stability of the triangular libration points for the plane circular restricted three-body problem with light pressure (2012) (5)
- Putting it all together: implications for policy and action (2011) (5)
- Market mechanisms for pollution control: Impacts on the coal industry: by Jan L. Vernon IEACR/27, IEA Coal Research, 38 pp, £60/£180 (IEA member/non-member countries) (1992) (4)
- Anisotropic Cosmology and Curvature Invariants. (1986) (4)
- Letter: Active Gravitational Mass and the Invariant Characterization of Reissner–Nordström Spacetime (2003) (4)
- The instability of De Sitter space in scalar-tensor theories (1989) (3)
- What drives clean fuel technology? (1997) (3)
- Climate change - is it worse than expected? (2015) (3)
- Global warming — time for a cool look (1989) (3)
- The Assessment of Scientific Research A Case-Study of CERN (1987) (3)
- The Shifting Balance of Power in Experimental Particle Physics (1986) (3)
- Acid Rain: A Business-as-Usual Scenario (1995) (3)
- The role of emissions trading in implementing the UN Climate Convention (1998) (3)
- Environmental regulation, investment and technical change (1996) (3)
- Friedmann Robertson Walker models with Conformally Coupled Massive Scalar Fields are Non-integrable (2006) (2)
- It is better to marry than to burn: Clean coal conference, Friends of the Earth, International Coal Development Institute/British Coal, London, UK, 15-16 June 1988 (1988) (2)
- Advanced coal use technology: by Walter C. Patterson Financial Times Business Information, London, UK, 1987, 132 pp, [pound sign]180 (UK); [pound sign]190 (elsewhere) (1988) (2)
- Thermodynamics of the quantum and classical Ising models with skew magnetic field (2008) (2)
- Sustainable business organizations (2003) (2)
- The global energy context (2015) (2)
- The energy framework and the scope for CHP (1996) (2)
- Generating solutions of Einstein's field equations by typing mistakes (1989) (2)
- Chapter 4: Energy Futures: The challenges of decarbonisation and security of supply (2010) (2)
- Electricity supplies for the primary aluminium industry (1980) (2)
- The high temperature expansion of the classical XYZ chain (2006) (2)
- A Model of Coal Cleaning for Sulfur Emissions Reduction (1987) (2)
- Market-based instruments for greenhouse gas control in the European Community (1993) (2)
- The Ndynamics package - Numerical analysis of dynamical systems and the fractal dimension of boundaries (1998) (2)
- Low carbon drivers for a sustainable world (2013) (1)
- The Clean Energy Imperative (2015) (1)
- Global warming: The Greenpeace report: ed by Jeremy Leggett Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York, 1990, [pound sign]5.95, 544 pp + index (1992) (1)
- Coal, crisis and conflict: The 1984-1985 miner's strike in Yorkshire: by Jonathan and Ruth Winterton Manchester University Press, UK, 1989 360 pp, [pound sign]13.95 (1989) (1)
- The Kasner Condition and Inhomogeneous Perfect Fluid Cosmologies (1999) (1)
- Mathematics and Algorithms for Computer Algebra (2003) (1)
- Fossil fuel consumption and the environment: by Ann Davison Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Oxford, UK, 1989, 61 pp (1990) (1)
- What’s this got to do with me? France and Transboundary Air Pollution (2019) (1)
- Discussion: Renewables and the grid: understanding intermittency (2007) (1)
- The spin-1/2 ising model with skew magnetic field at high temperatures (2008) (1)
- Achieving a Low Carbon Society: Sharing Knowledge to Meet a Common Challenge (2012) (1)
- A simulation model of interfuel substitution in the industrial boiler market (1987) (1)
- Delivering a Low-Carbon Electricity System, Michael Grubb, Tooraj Jamasb, Michael G. Pollitt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2008). xx+514pp., ISBN: 978-0-08-521-88884-4 (2009) (1)
- BLUEPRINT 2: Greening the world economy: edited by David Pearce Earthscan Publications, London, 1990, 232pp, [pound sign]7.95 (1992) (1)
- Clean coal technology: programmes and issues : International Energy Agency, OECD, Paris, 1987, 174 pp, [pound sign]10.50 (1987) (1)
- A multi-dimensional indicator framework for evaluating energy technology innovation system (2015) (1)
- The stability of the triangular libration points for the plane circular restricted three-body problem with light pressure (2014) (0)
- The Kyoto Protocol: Dead or Alive? (2001) (0)
- UK Energy Research Centre Report to Supervisory Board July-December 2007 (2007) (0)
- Energy and the environment in the 21st century: Proceedings of the conference held at MIT, 26–28 march 1990 (1992) (0)
- Innovation in the energy sector: advancing or frustrating climate policy goals? (2014) (0)
- Policy Instruments for Abating Industrial Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the UK (1992) (0)
- Implementation of the Prelle-Singer Method for 1ODEs (2000) (0)
- Least cost strategies for regional SO/sub 2/ emission reductions (1985) (0)
- Harmonious Principles and Clutters of Expedients: The Environment White Paper (1991) (0)
- Market impacts and sulphur control: The consequences for coal: Jan L. Vernon IEACR/18 IEA Coal Research, 1989, 111 pp, [pound sign]60/180 (IEA member/non-member countries (1992) (0)
- Computer methods in general relativity: algebraic computing (1992) (0)
- Market mechanisms for pollution control: Impacts on the coal industry: by Jan L. Vernon IEACR/27, IEA Coal Research, 38 pp, [pound sign]60/[pound sign]180 (IEA member/non-member countries) (1992) (0)
- Technological responses to the greenhouse effect: by George Thurlow Rooster Books, for the Watt Committee on Energy, Royston, Hertfordshire, UK, 1990, 77 pp (1991) (0)
- CONSUMPTION-BASED AND LIFE-CYCLE EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING : STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN SUPPORTING CLIMATE POLICY (2013) (0)
- UK energy governance: objectives, policies and institutions (2011) (0)
- Optimization of coal-beneficiation plants for SO sub 2 emissions control (1988) (0)
- The future of nuclear power (2005) (0)
- Developing and financing profitable self-generation projects: Profiting from the challenge of enterprise: IIR Ltd, Regent Crest Hotel, London, UK, 16-17 april 1991 (1992) (0)
- Developing and financing profitable self-generation projects: Profiting from the challenge of enterprise : IIR Ltd, London, UK, 16-17 April 1991 (1992) (0)
- Inflationary Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity: Reconstructing Higgs-Like Potentials (2017) (0)
- The Environment and the European Economy (1999) (0)
- Why Energy Conservation Fails: by Herbert Inhaber, Quorum Books: Westport, CT, ISBN 1-56720-597-6, 2002 (2003) (0)
- Science and technology innovation (2019) (0)
- Computational Aspects of the Calculation of Isometry Groups in General Relativity (2009) (0)
- Determining isometries of space-times using computer algebra. (1991) (0)
- A NEW NUMERICAL CODE FOR THE DYNAMICS OF SCALAR FIELDS IN SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC SPACETIMES (2012) (0)
- Air pollutants fron energy industries: Scientific basis of standards and research needs: A.J. Jakeman Australian Nationa University, 1990, 175 pp (1992) (0)
- Coal-use technology in a changing environment: The advance advance continues: Walter C. Patterson Financial Times Business Information, 1990, 118 pp, [pound sign]215.00 (1992) (0)
- Book reviewEmerging energy technologies: Impacts and policy implications: M. Grubb, J. Walker et al Aldershot, Royal Institute of International Affairs/Dartmouth, 1992, 252 pages (1992) (0)
- Emissions Trading and the Environment (1999) (0)
- Keeping government on track: The UK Climate Change Act and the Committee on Climate Change (2009) (0)
- International environmental diplomacy: The management and resolution of transfrontier environmental problems: ed by John E. Carroll Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 291 pp, $35.00, 1988 (1990) (0)
- Why choose coal? The case for coal in power generation: International Coal Development Institute ICDI, London, UK, 1988, 32 pp (1989) (0)
- Numerical Calculations Using Maple: Why & How? (1999) (0)
- UK energy in an uncertain world (2012) (0)
- Book Review: Electricity Supply in the OECD (1992) (0)
- Fossil fuel competition in the UK industrial crude heat market (1986) (0)
- Nonlinear stability analysis in a equilateral restricted four-body problem (2015) (0)
- Climate and energy: The feasibility of controlling CO2 emissions: by P.A. Okken, R.J. Swart and S. Zwerver Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1989, 267 pp (1991) (0)
- Accelerating emerging supply technologies: the role of research and innovation (2011) (0)
- The economics of coal for steam raising in industry: by R.S. Holcomb and M. Prior IEA Coal Research, ICEAS/H4, IEA Coal Research, London, April 1985 (1985) (0)
- Communications on energy: Attitudes to fuel choice in UK industry: results of a survey (1986) (0)
- Final Government Distribution Ipcc Wg2 Third Assessment Report Do Not Cite or Quote 1 Chapter 7 Chapter 7. Human Settlements, Energy, and Industry Coordinating Lead Authors (0)
- Energy and environment (1992) (0)
- Call for reduction in SO2 emissions : The Acid Rain Inquiry. An Open International Conference, Edinburgh, 27-29 September 1984 (1985) (0)
- Slowing down global warming: A worldwide strategy : by Christopher Flavin Worldwatch paper 91, worldwatch Institute, Washington DC, USA, October 1989, 94 pp, $4 (1991) (0)
- UK Energy Research Centre Report to Supervisory Board January-June 2007 (2007) (0)
- The mitigation landscape: demand, supply, and systems (2021) (0)
- Reviving industrial coal use: a cast study of the United Kingdom (1983) (0)
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