Clean Energy and Sustainability, Volume 2, Issue 1 (March 2024) – 5 articles

Energy Revolution? Yes, it is already ongoing before our eyes. And even, the energy revolution is already institutionalised, as a transnational evolutionary process – notable by the "Green Deal" as declared by the EU. Moreover, many world regions are in a position to structurally profit from the gains of transforming their energy economy away from fossils towards renewables, and at the same time increase efficiency and efficacity. While evolutionary procedures for transforming the transnational systems of energy demand and supply are at the heart of an "energy revolution", adjacent fields including sustainable food production and circular economy add more substance to this planetary conversion of our material flows constituting the basis of our global civilisation. In this context, the "Global Change Data Base" GCDB is a quantitative and graphic instrument to create or test hypotheses about promising paths in the global socio-techno-economic evolution.