The global energy context / Jim Skea -- Energy systems and innovation / Jim Watson, Xinxin Wang, and Florian Kern -- Deepening globalization : economies, trade, and energy systems / Gavin Bridge and Michael Bradshaw --The global climate change regime / Joanna Depledge -- The implications of indirect emissions for climate and energy policy / Katy Roelich, John Barrett, and Anne Owen -- Energy production and ecosystem services / Robert Holland [and five others] --Technical, economic, social, and cultural perspectives on energy demand / Charlie WIlson [and three others]-- Energy access and development in the twenty-first century / Xavier Lemaire -- Improving efficiency in buildings : conventional and alternative approaches / Kathryn B. Janda [and three others] -- Challenges and option for sustainable travel : mobility, motorisation, and vehicle technologies / Hannah Daly, Paul E. Dodds, and Will McDowall -- Shipping and aviation / Antony Evans and Tristan Smith -- Carbon capture and storage / Jim Watson and Cameron Jones -- Fossil fuels : reserves, costs curves, production, and consumption / Michael Bradshaw [and three others] -- Unconventional fossil fuels and technological change / Michael Bradshaw [and three others] -- The geopolitical economy of a globalizing gas market / Michael Bradshaw, Joseph Ditton, and Gavin Bridge -- Nuclear power after Fukushima : prospects and implications / Markku Lehtonen and Mari Martiskainen -- Bioenergy resources / Raphael Slade and Ausilio Bauen -- Solar energy : an untapped growing potential? / Chiara Candelise -- Water : ocean energy and hydro / Laura Finlay [and three others] -- Global wind power developments and prospects / Will McDowall and Andrew ZP Smith -- Network infrastructure and energy storage for low-carbon energy systems / Paul E. Dodds and Birgit Fais -- Metals for the low-carbon energy system / Jamie Speirs and Katy Roelich -- Electricity market and their regulatory systems for a sustainable future / Catherine Mitchell -- Global scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions reduction / Christophe McGlade [and three others] -- Energy and ecosystem service impacts / Eleni Papthanasopoulou [and ten others]