Book description
* Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the
risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are
immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use
energy, organise transport and treat forests - will determine whether
these risks become realities.
* Although poor countries - the least responsible for climate change
- will be hit earliest and hardest, all countries must adapt to the
effects: hurricanes and storms strike New Orleans and Mumbai;
flooding causes devastation in England and Mozambique; droughts occur
in Australia and Darfur; and sea level rise will affect Florida and
Bangladesh.
* Lord Stern, author of the Stern Review on the Economics of
Climate Change and former Chief Economist at the World
Bank, is the world's leading authority on what we can do in the
face of such unprecedented threat. Action on climate change will
require the greatest possible international collaboration, but if
successful will ensure not just our future, but our future prosperity.
* Focusing on the economic management of investment and growth from
the perspective of both adaptation and mitigation, Stern confronts
the most urgent questions facing us now: what is the problem? What
are the dangers? What can be done to reduce emissions, at what cost?
How can the world adapt? And what does all this mean for
corporations, governments and individuals?
*
A Blueprint for a Safer Planet provides authoritative,
inspirational, and hopeful, answers.
Nicholas Stern was Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the
World Bank from 2000 to 2003. He is currently the I. G. Patel Chair at
the London School of Economics, heading the new India Observatory within
the Asia Research Centre. He also chairs the Grantham Research Institute
on Climate Change and the Environment. He has served as the Second
Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty's Treasury, the Director of Policy
and Research for the Prime Minister's Commission for Africa, and the
head of the Government Economic Service in the UK.
