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A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How we can save the world and crate prosperity

Hurricanes and storms strike New Orleans and Mumbai; flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; droughts occur in Australia and Darfur... Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. Here Lord Ster...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicholas Stern
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Vintage 2010
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Table of Contents:
  • Why there is a problem and how we can deal with it
  • The dangers
  • How emissions can be reduced, and at what cost
  • Adapting to climate change
  • Ethics, discounting and the case for action
  • Policies to reduce emissions
  • Individual, firms, communities: the power of example
  • The structure of a global deal
  • Building and sustaining action
  • A planet in peril.