The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong--and How to Fix It

Dieter Helm

ISBN 10: 0300186592 / ISBN 13: 9780300186598

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2012

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Inhaltsangabe:

Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25% to almost 30% of world energy use. And while European countries have congratulated themselves on reducing emissions, they have increased their carbon imports from China and other developing nations, who continue to expand their coal use. As standards of living increase in developing countries, coal use can only increase as well—and global temperatures along with it.

In this hard-hitting book, Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy—from transitioning from coal to gas and eventually to electrification of transport, to carbon pricing and a focus on new technologies. Lucid, compelling and rigorously researched, this book will have a lasting impact on how we think about climate change.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Dieter Helm, CBE, is professor of energy policy, University of Oxford and fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee to the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and Chair of the Natural Capital Committee.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate...
Verlag: Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket