The carbon crunch : how we're getting climate change wrong - and how to fix it / Dieter Helm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helm, Dieter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renewable energy sources.

Energy conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

Second Edition

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist 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. "An optimistically levelheaded book about actually dealing with global warming."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review "[Dieter Helm] has turned his agile mind to one of the great problems of our age: why the world's efforts to curb the carbon dioxide emissions behind global warming have gone so wrong, and how it can do better."-Pilita Clark, Financial Times

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Figures and tables

Abbreviations

Preface to the revised and updated edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE: Why should we worry about climate change?

1. How serious is climate change?

2. Why are emissions rising?

3. Who is to blame?

PART TWO: Why is so little being achieved?

4. Current renewables technologies to the rescue?

5. Can demand be cut?

6. A new dawn for nuclear?

7. Are we running out of fossil fuels?

8. A credible international agreement?

PART THREE: What should be done?

9. Fixing the carbon price

10. Making the transition

11. Investing in new technologies

Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300217414

0300217412

OCLC:

1143795551