Net Zero : How We Stop Causing Climate Change - Dieter Helm

Net Zero

How We Stop Causing Climate Change

By: Dieter Helm

Hardcover | 3 September 2020

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What can we really do about the climate emergency?

The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.

In Net Zero , economist Dieter Helm addresses the action we all need to take to tackle the climate emergency: personal, local, national and global. Reducing our own carbon consumption is the first step. Helm argues that we, the ultimate polluters, should pay based on how much carbon the products we buy produce. We need a carbon price, and one that applies to everything and everywhere, from flights, to food and farming.

The goal of net zero carbon emissions needs a rethink and this book sets out how to do it in a plan that could and would work. Do this and we make no further contribution to global warming, in a way that embraces sustainable economic growth and does not harm other aspects of the environment in the process. There is a solution and we must find it. Everything is at stake.

About the Author

Professor Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He specialises in the environment, notably in climate change, biodiversity, water, energy and agriculture. Previous books have included Burn Out: The Endgame of Fossil Fuels, The Carbon Crunch and Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet . In December 2015, Dieter was reappointed as Independent Chair of the Natural Capital Committee. He is also an Honorary Vice President of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Industry Reviews
Praise for Dieter Helm's previous book, Green and Prosperous Land :

'Dieter Helm has taken a good, hard look at the state of our natural environment and the result could be one of the most important books of the decade'
Country Life

'Helm's solutions are refreshingly straightforward ... The notion of the financial value of nature is long established. Helm takes this further to present a pure economic argument for conservation. We all need to listen to that'
Simon Barnes Sunday Times

'[Helm is] as eloquent with his recommendations as in analysis of the problem ... This is an important analysis, argued with passion, intelligence and rigour. It is timely too, because - as Helm makes compellingly clear - of the urgency of the problem'
Financial Times

'A trenchant manifesto for change ... visionary, pragmatic and context-rich'
Nature

'Delivers handsomely on the promise of its title'
New Scientist

There is an enormous amount to admire'
Times Literary Supplement

'Hooray for this book! An economist dispensing with the usual nonsense, and applying his mind to the task of devising a sound economic plan for the protection and restoration of Britain's wildlife ... [This is a] brave and forthright attempt to begin a new conversation on how to pay to keep our wildlife'
British Wildlife

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