Climate Change: Essential Guide To Science, Politics And Solutions

This book is an up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive guide to climate change. It covers:The book also looks at the political tensions surrounding climate change and provides a detail analysis of the international climate negotiations from the Rio Earth Summit right up to today. The political emergence of the global net zero emissions narrative and what it means for geopolitics, countries, companies and individuals is discussed. Potential solutions are considered in detail in chapters on mitigation (reducing emissions), adaptations (protecting people) and geoengineering (cooling the planet).To ensure the very best solutions are used, the final chapter makes 10 recommendations for each of the following: Governments, Companies and Individuals to help shape our future. The book also calls for major changes at the international level to help move beyond the current economic system and move toward a more sustainable global economy.