Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate C

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A policy insider, Simon Sharpe provides compelling ideas on how we can act five times faster to tackle climate change. This edition has been brought up-to-date throughout, and includes a new chapter on international competition and cooperation on climate change and a response to the question: 'How can I help?'

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We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. This is an inside story from Simon Sharpe, who has spent ten years at the forefront of climate change policy and diplomacy. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change, science is pulling its punches, diplomacy is picking the wrong battles, and economics has been fighting for the other side. This provocative and engaging book sets out how we should rethink our strategies and reorganise our efforts in the fields of science, economics, and diplomacy, so that we can act fast enough to stay safe. This edition has been brought up-to-date throughout, and includes a new chapter on how international cooperation on climate change can be reconciled with economic and geopolitical competition. It also includes a response to the question the book has most often provoked: 'How can I help?'

Author Biography

Simon Sharpe is Managing Director of S-Curve Economics, and Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team. He designed and led flagship international campaigns of the UK's Presidency of the UN climate change talks (COP26) in 2020–2021; worked as the head of private office to a minister of energy and climate change in the UK government; and has served on diplomatic postings in China and India. He has published influential academic papers and created groundbreaking international initiatives in climate change risk assessment, economics, policy, and diplomacy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Science: 2. Looking up at the dam; 3. Knowing the least about what matters most; 4. Telling the boiling frog what he needs to know; 5. Runaway tipping points of no return; 6. The meaning of conservative; 7. More than science; 8. Tell the truth; Part II. Economics: 9. Worse than useless; 10. The allocation of scarce resources; 11. The configuration of abundance; 12. Not just fixing the foundations; 13. Investing with our eyes open; 14. Regulating for a free lunch; 15. Stuck in first gear; 16. Runaway tipping points of no return, revisited; 17. Revolutionary; Part III. Diplomacy: 18. A foreseeable failure; 19. The greatest public relations gamble in history; 20. System change, not climate change; 21. Better late than never; 22. From coal to clean power; 23. From oil to electric vehicles; 24. From deforestation to sustainable development; 25. The Breakthrough Agenda; 26. Competition and cooperation; 27. Tipping cascades; 28. Epilogue. Appendix: How you can help.

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Policy insider's compelling argument to tackle climate change five times faster, including a new chapter and updates throughout.

Details ISBN1009568515 Author Simon Sharpe Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781009568517 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change – Updated Edition Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781009568470 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises ISBN-10 1009568515 Audience General DEWEY 363.73874561 Publication Date 2024-11-07 UK Release Date 2024-11-07 Pages 452 We've got this

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