What We Need to Do Now
For a Zero Carbon Future
Published on 6. February 2020
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-78816-471-9 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize
The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. His proposals include:
-Building a huge over-capacity of wind and solar energy, storing the excess as hydrogen.
-Using hydrogen to fuel our trains, shipping, boilers and heavy industry, while electrifying buses, trucks and cars.
-Farming - and eating - differently, encouraging plant-based alternatives to meat
-paying farmers to plant and maintain woodlands.
-Making fashion sustainable and aviation pay its way, funding synthetic fuels and genuine offsets.
-Using technical solutions to capture CO2 from the air, and biochar to lock carbon in the soil.
What We Need To Do Now is an urgent, practical and inspiring book that signals a green new deal for Britain.
The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. His proposals include:
-Building a huge over-capacity of wind and solar energy, storing the excess as hydrogen.
-Using hydrogen to fuel our trains, shipping, boilers and heavy industry, while electrifying buses, trucks and cars.
-Farming - and eating - differently, encouraging plant-based alternatives to meat
-paying farmers to plant and maintain woodlands.
-Making fashion sustainable and aviation pay its way, funding synthetic fuels and genuine offsets.
-Using technical solutions to capture CO2 from the air, and biochar to lock carbon in the soil.
What We Need To Do Now is an urgent, practical and inspiring book that signals a green new deal for Britain.
Reviews / Votes
When economist Chris Goodall was writing this pleasingly accessible book, G7 countries had just begun to set net zero emission targets, and his idea of meeting those goals by boosting renewable electricity enough to create hydrogen-powered economies seemed highly ambitious. Today, it's going mainstream as countries around the world bet on just that strategy. -- Pitta Clark * Financial Times - Environment Books of the Year * This is exactly the kind of mapping out that we need to make the zero carbon world happen. Chris Goodall's plan is well argued and delightfully readable. -- Mike Berners-Lee, author * There is no Planet B, How Bad are Bananas? * Chris Goodall is the kind of person we need to lead us to safety faced with climate change. I learned so much reading this book. It's crisp, superbly researched - and remarkably calm. We can do this. -- Tim Harford, author * 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy, presenter, More or Less * Praise for Ten Technologies:'Brilliantly concise and clear-eyed.' * New Scientist * Praise for How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: 'Valuable ammunition for those who want to do something about global warming ... Goodall is a pioneer.' * Guardian * The Switch
'A highly readable book ... for anyone interested in the future of energy.' * Financial Times *
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78816-471-9 (9781788164719)
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02/2020
Profile Books Ltd
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Person
Chris Goodall is an economist working in energy technology and climate change action. He wrote the pioneering How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, Ten Technologies to Save the Planet and The Switch (on solar power). He was recently chair of one of the UK's leading car charging companies and is involved in several innovative businesses in the green economy.