Solving Climate Change: A Guide for Learners and Leaders

This book frames the climate problem in a comprehensive way and cuts through common conceptual confusions that impede rapid action.

The first chapter describes the history, nature, and scope of the climate problem. The second chapter describes how to stabilize the climate by ending fossil fuels, minimizing non-fossil emissions, and creating a climate-positive biosphere.

The authors identify five technical pillars of climate action needed to stabilize the climate, each of which gets its own chapter. These include electrifying (almost) everything, decarbonizing the electricity grid, minimizing non-fossil emissions, promoting efficiency and optimization, and removing carbon from the atmosphere. The book then moves beyond the narrow technical and policy focus of most previous climate solutions work by detailing three more "institutional" pillars that require action: aligning incentives, mobilizing money, and elevating truth.

Key Features:

• Teaches methods for assessing the potential for emissions reductions at the government, company, funder, and individual citizen levels.

• Provides the reader with a quantitative sense of the massive scope and rapid rate of change needed to truly meet the climate challenge while simultaneously providing realistic and actionable solutions.

• Summarizes evidence-based advice from two experts on creating zero emissions and net climate-positive systems and institutions.

• Trains the reader to separate fact from fiction when analysing climate solutions and provides realistic paths towards climate progress for a wide range of decision-makers.

這本書以全面的方式框架了氣候問題，並消除了常見的概念混淆，以促進快速行動。

第一章描述了氣候問題的歷史、性質和範圍。第二章描述了如何通過結束化石燃料使用、減少非化石排放和創造氣候積極的生物圈來穩定氣候。

作者確定了實現氣候穩定所需的五個技術支柱，每個支柱都有一章專門介紹。這些支柱包括電氣化（幾乎）所有事物、脫碳電力網、減少非化石排放、促進效率和優化，以及從大氣中去除碳。該書還超越了大多數先前氣候解決方案工作的狹隘技術和政策焦點，詳細介紹了需要行動的三個“制度”支柱：調整激勵措施、動員資金和提升真相。

主要特點：
- 教授評估政府、公司、資助者和個人公民層面減排潛力的方法。
- 為讀者提供量化的感覺，了解真正應對氣候挑戰所需的巨大範圍和快速變化速度，同時提供切實可行的解決方案。
- 總結了兩位專家關於創建零排放和淨氣候積極系統和機構的基於證據的建議。
- 培養讀者在分析氣候解決方案時將事實與虛構區分開來，並為各種決策者提供實現氣候進展的現實途徑。