Five times faster : rethinking the science, economics, and diplomacy of climate change / Simon Sharpe.
By: Sharpe, Simon, (Researcher on climate change economics) [author.]
.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: ix, 334 pages : illustrations.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781009326490; 9781009326506.Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Government policy | Climatic changes -- Economic aspects | Climate change mitigation -- International cooperationDDC classification: 363.73874 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 363.73874 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 021495 |
I. Science -- Looking up at the dam -- Knowing the least about what matters most -- Telling the boiling frog what he needs to know -- Runaway tipping points of no return -- The meaning of conservative -- More than science -- Tell the truth -- II. Economics -- Worse than useless -- The allocation of scarce resources -- The configuration of abundance -- Not just fixing the foundations -- Investing with our eyes open -- Regulating for a free lunch -- Stuck in first gear -- Runaway tipping points of no return, revisited -- Revolutionary -- III. Diplomacy -- A foreseeable failure -- The greatest public relations gamble in history -- System change, no climate change -- Better late than never -- From coal to clean power -- From oil to electric vehicles -- From deforestation to sustainable development -- Tipping cascades -- Epilogue.