Transforming Energy
Solving Climate Change with Technology Policy
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:22nd Jul '15
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This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change.
We need to stop burning fossil fuels in order to halt human-induced climate change. Most experts tell us we need carbon taxes, globally binding treaties and lifestyle changes. This book explains why these experts are wrong, and examines the technology innovation policies that are already working to transform our energy use.Climate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advise us that we need to make major changes to our lifestyles, and our governments need to agree globally binding treaties and implement market instruments like carbon taxes. This advice is a mistake: it treats technological innovation as being at the periphery of the climate policy challenge, whereas it needs to be at its core; we will phase out emissions when and only when the technologies to replace fossil fuels are good enough, and policies need - quickly - to support these new technologies directly. Anyone with an interest in climate change and energy policy will find this book forward-thinking and invaluable. Professional policy-makers, climate and energy policy researchers, and students of energy and public policy, economics, political science, environmental studies, and geography will find this book especially stimulating.
'Anthony Patt challenges the received wisdom of climate policy head on … his book serves as wake up call for climate policy decision-makers: in the end, the actual performance of greenhouse gas mitigation policy instruments counts, not their theoretical beauty.' Axel Michaelowa, University of Zurich
ISBN: 9781107024069
Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 22mm
Weight: 730g
360 pages