Earth Notes: General Bibliography (stulz20112000W)

• [stulz20112000W] Roland Stulz and Stephan Tanner and René Sigg Chapter 16 - Swiss 2000-Watt Society: A Sustainable Energy Vision for the Future (accessed 2023-02-11), editor(s) Fereidoon P. Sioshansi, in Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, 2011, ISBN 978-0-12-385136-9, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-385136-9.10016-6, pages 477-496 (incollection) (BibTeX).
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  (Publisher Summary) This chapter presents the original vision that led to the concept of Swiss 2000-Watt Society and what it entails, including the institutional support for the implementation of the vision and the twin strategy of one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) per capita. It also describes the fundamentals of the 2000-Watt Society including its technical feasibility and highlights the results of a number of ongoing projects where the feasibility of the concept are being empirically including a number of remaining hurdles and barriers to full implementation of the concept. The Swiss 2000-Watt Society started as a simple vision that seeks to make the current high living standards of Western countries universally available to everyone and attempts to accomplish this feat in a sustainable fashion. The important essential aspect of the 2000-Watt Society is that current high standards of living in industrialized countries can be maintained, including the provision of energy services needed to cover all basic human needs, amenities, services, and goods while recognizing that this requires a paradigm shift to an intelligent lifestyle.