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This invited keynote paper is the most recent among energy reviews in the sustainability (economic, environmental and social impacts) framework published by the author, updated to year 2020 and is augmented by discussions on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on sustainable energy development, emphasizing reminder of the need for integrating and employing resilience planning and analysis with sustainable development, and by identifying some of the currently main game-changing developments, as well as introducing some of the planning status for countering the energy-related pandemic impacts in the extremely dynamic and transient energy field This dynamic transience often results in significant consequences for humanity and can seldom be foreseen or recognized early enough to allow timely correctional reactions A brief description of the recent estimates and forecasts of the energy resources, uses and the dizzy, and hence ruinous, volatility of their prices is presented Some of the main ongoing and high probability energy game-changers discussed are: 1 Proof of the mandatory need for multi-generational global sustainability and resilience planning and implementation 2 Ultimatum for lowering the critical global warming temperature limit by 25% (to a maximal increase of 1 5°C) 3 Postponement of \'Peak Oil\' 4 Significantly increasing use of unconventional fossil fuels: shale and tight gas and oil 5 Ruinous effects of strong fluctuations (= 1:7) of fuel prices, 6 Decoupling of energy consumption from economic growth 7 Criticality of the future of coal 8 The nuclear disaster in Japan and nuclear power future 9 Transition to energy independence of the USA 10 Market entry impact of electric cars 11 Criticality of the transition to renewable energy use 12 Worrisome portents of critical policy changes 13 Accelerated entry of the sharing energy economy 14 Important increase of support by organized religion for sustainable development © ECOS 2020 All right reserved
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33rd_International_Conference_on_Efficiency,_Cost,_Optimization,_Simulation_and_Environmental_Impact_of_Energy_Systems,_ECOS_2020
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Sustainable energy development status (2020) with key lessons from the pandemic
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