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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 Net Zero 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.
Professor Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Official 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 Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside, 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.
– A Nature Book of the Week
"You should read it'"
– Julian Glover, Evening Standard
"The reasons I enjoyed this book are fivefold and I think they are reasons that many readers of this blog would enjoy it too. This book is very clearly written, on an important subject, by someone who knows their stuff, by someone who is a friend of the natural environment and, perhaps most importantly, it challenges my own starting point on this subject."
– Mark Avery
"Dieter Helm is one of Britain's foremost experts on energy economics and he has written a terrific book on the next agenda item once the COVID emergency has passed. It is also an angry book [...] A fine overview of our climate policy failures and the options for doing better."
– Sunday Independent
