num_pages: 304
description: 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 welland 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 policyfrom 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.
language: English
title: The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong--and How to Fix It
publisher: Yale University Press