In the 21st century, the Earth's

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteoro ...

and its

energy policy Energy policies are the government's strategies and decisions regarding the Energy production, production, Energy distribution, distribution, and World energy supply and consumption, consumption of energy within a specific jurisdiction. Energy ...

interact and their relationship is studied and governed by a variety of national and international institutions. The relationships between energy-

resource depletion Resource depletion occurs when a natural resource is consumed faster than it can be replenished. The value of a resource depends on its availability in nature and the cost of extracting it. By the law of supply and demand, the Scarcity, scarcer ...

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

, health resources and the environment, and the effects that they have on each other, have been subject to numerous scientific studies and

research Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

efforts. As a result, a majority of governments see climate and energy as two of the most important

policy Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. Policies are generally adopted by a governance body within an or ...

goals of the twenty first century. The correlation between climate and energy rests on known causal relationships between human population growth, rising

energy consumption Energy consumption is the amount of energy used. Biology In the body, energy consumption is part of energy homeostasis. It derived from food energy. Energy consumption in the body is a product of the basal metabolic rate and the physical acti ...

and

land use Land use is an umbrella term to describe what happens on a parcel of land. It concerns the benefits derived from using the land, and also the land management actions that humans carry out there. The following categories are used for land use: fo ...

and the resulting

greenhouse gas emissions Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect. This contributes to climate change. Carbon dioxide (), from burning fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, oil, and natural gas, is the main cause of climate chan ...

and

. Environmental harm was caused early on during the industrial revolution, with air pollution being caused by soot coming from factories, as well as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere due to the burning of coal. The concern for climate change control and

mitigation Mitigation is the reduction of something harmful that has occurred or the reduction of its harmful effects. It may refer to measures taken to reduce the harmful effects of hazards that remain ''in potentia'', or to manage harmful incidents that ...

has consequently spurred policy makers and scientists to treat energy use and global climate as an inextricable nexus with effects also going in reverse direction and create various initiatives, institutions and think tanks for a high-level treatment of the relationships. The varying approaches that are highly flawed and hold us back as a society when trying to stabilize the global climate include efficiency improvements, superconducting global electric grids, geoengineering, hydrogen production, storage, and transport. * Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change (global) *

Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities (Denmark) The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities () is a governmental agency in Denmark. It is responsible for national climate policy and international cooperation on climate change, as well as energy issues, meteorology and national geolo ...

* Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy ( US) *

United States House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming was a select or special committee (United States), select committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was established March 8, 2007 through adoption of a resolut ...

(US) * European Union climate and energy package ( EU) *

Department of Energy and Climate Change The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was a Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, department of the government of the United Kingdom created on 3 October 2008, by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take over some of the ...

( UK) * White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy (US) *

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is a department of the Australian Government. The department was established on 1 July 2022, superseding the water and environment functions from the Department of A ...

(

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

) * Minister for the Environment and Water (Australia) * Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 * Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Germany) * Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (UK) *

Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee The Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that came into existence in April 2023. It is the successor to the previous Energy and Climate Change Select ...

(UK) * San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law (US) * Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

)

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