Jonathan Koomey, Ian Monroe

Solving Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

A guide for learners and leaders

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Returning Earth to a stable and healthy climate will require unprecedented and rapid changes around the globe. This book frames the climate problem in a comprehensive way and cuts through common conceptual confusions that impede rapid action.

The first chapter describes the history, nature, and scope of the climate problem, using concise framing from Kimberly Nicholas: it's warming, it's us, we're sure, it's bad, we can fix it (but we'd better hurry). The second chapter describes how to stabilize the climate by ending fossil fuels, minimizing non-fossil emissions, and creating a climate-positive biosphere.

The authors identify five technical pillars of climate action needed to stabilize the climate, each of which gets its own chapter. These include electrifying (almost) everything, decarbonizing the electricity grid, minimizing non-fossil emissions, promoting efficiency and optimization ("emissions efficiency"), and removing carbon from the atmosphere. The book then moves beyond the narrow technical and policy focus of most previous climate solutions work by detailing three more "institutional" pillars that require action: aligning incentives, mobilizing money, and elevating truth.

This book grew out of the authors' combined decades of experience in studying and implementing climate solutions around the world. They hope that this material will help learners and leaders grasp the full spectrum of solutions necessary to truly face our climate challenge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750340328
• Artikelnr.: 67185723

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Koomey studies the economics of solving climate change and the environmental effects of information technology. He was a staff scientist and group leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the 1990s and early 2000s, then an itinerant visiting professor/researcher/lecturer at Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group and an A.B. in History and Science from Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of ten books and more than 200 articles and reports.

With a career spanning climate science, technology, policy, and finance, Ian Monroe has taught at Stanford University for over a decade and worked on climate challenges in over 30 countries. A pioneer in climate solution investing, Ian co-founded Etho Capital, which runs the ETHO ETF and has helped decarbonize over $100 billion in assets. Ian is also a co-founder of the Climate+Positive Investing Alliance and Oroeco, as well as an advisor to many climate programs. With degrees in Earth Systems science from Stanford and the University of Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme, Ian has also been educated by climate-fueled droughts and wildfires on his family's small farm.