Net zero : how we stop causing climate change / Professor Dieter Helm.
Publisher: London : William Collins, 2021Description: 304 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0046360859ISBN: 9780008404499 Subject(s): Global warming -- Prevention -- Citizen participation | Global warming -- Prevention -- Government policy | Energy consumption
| Carbon dioxide mitigation -- Popular works | Environment and Ecology | The environment | Environmental policy & protocols | Conservation of the environment | United Kingdom, Great Britain | North America | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 | c 2010 to c 2019 | Cultural studies: food & society | Public administration | Climate change | Pollution controlDDC classification: 363.738746 LOC classification: QC981.8.G56Summary: What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done. What can we really do about the climate emergency?The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change.Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm's measured, balanced view of how we stop causing climate change by adopting a net zero strategy of reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon absorption. It is a rational look at why the past 30 years efforts has failed and why and how the next 30 years can succeed. It is a vital book for anyone who hears the clamour of Extinction Rebellion and other ecological activists, but wonders what they can actually do.
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What can we really do about the climate emergency?
The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.
In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change.
Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm's measured, balanced view of how we stop causing climate change by adopting a net zero strategy of reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon absorption. It is a rational look at why the past 30 years efforts has failed and why and how the next 30 years can succeed. It is a vital book for anyone who hears the clamour of Extinction Rebellion and other ecological activists, but wonders what they can actually do.
Originally published: 2020.
What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done. What can we really do about the climate emergency?The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change.Net Zero is Professor Dieter Helm's measured, balanced view of how we stop causing climate change by adopting a net zero strategy of reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon absorption. It is a rational look at why the past 30 years efforts has failed and why and how the next 30 years can succeed. It is a vital book for anyone who hears the clamour of Extinction Rebellion and other ecological activists, but wonders what they can actually do.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. ix)
- List of abbreviations (p. xvii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 30 Wasted Years
- Chapter 1 No progress (p. 19)
- Chapter 2 The road to Glasgow (p. 41)
- Chapter 3 Going it alone (p. 61)
- Part 2 The Net Zero Economy
- Chapter 4 Living within our environmental means (p. 87)
- Chapter 5 The price of carbon (p. 111)
- Chapter 6 Net zero infrastructures (p. 130)
- Chapter 7 Natural sequestration, offsetting, and carbon capture and storage (p. 148)
- Part 3 Agriculture, Transport and Electricity
- Chapter 8 Agriculture: green, prosperous and low-carbon (p. 167)
- Chapter 9 Reinventing transport (p. 186)
- Chapter 10 The electric future (p. 211)
- Conclusions: A no regrets plan (p. 231)
- Acknowledgements (p. 241)
- Endnotes (p. 245)
- Bibliography (p. 262)
- Index (p. 271)
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