Softback. Tan cover with title and coal mine on the front board.

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A fantastic book. Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise.  Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25% to almost 30% of world energy use. And while European countries have congratulated themselves on reducing emissions, they have increased their carbon imports from China and other developing nations, who continue to expand their coal use. As standards of living increase in developing countries, coal use can only increase as well-and global temperatures along with it. In this hard-hitting book, Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy – from transitioning from coal to gas and eventually to electrification of transport, to carbon pricing and a focus on new technologies. Lucid, compelling, and rigorously researched, this book will have a lasting impact on how we think about climate change. Hard hitting analysis of how and why we have failed to tackle climate change, and how we can bridge the gap between aspiration and delivery. In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic re-thinking of energy policy.

‘An optimistically level-headed book about actually dealing with global warming.’ – Kirkus Reviews, starred review

‘[Dieter Helm] has turned his agile mind to one of the great problems of our age: why the world’s efforts to curb the carbon dioxide emissions behind why global warming has gone so wrong, and how it can do better’ Pilita Clack,
Financial Times.