Net Zero, Dieter Helm
Net Zero, Dieter Helm
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Synopsis

What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done. In the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted to stop causing climate change. Net Zero

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ptrav on November 23, 2020

Net-Zero Year or Net Year-Zero? First and foremost, I must congratulate Professor Dieter Helm for his honesty. Upon reading this book one understands the bright future that is being readied for us all over the next decade or two. Secondly, I must point to some very imaginative writing, with proposed......more

Goodreads review by Mukesh on June 27, 2021

A no holds barred account, gets caustic at places, about the drastic policy and lifestyle/ world order changes required to tackle the climate crisis. Becomes a bit belaboured at times, however provides real pragmatic solutions too : Carbon tax, Compensate Carbon more on the side of caution, polluter......more

Goodreads review by Vinod on May 02, 2022

Comprehensive guide to the different aspects of the path to net zero. Wide ranging in its scope and ideas, albeit with a primarily Euro-centric focus (the author is British). Not necessarily the most accessible read though, and perhaps best enjoyed by those with a technical grounding in net zero mat......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on September 27, 2020

Thought provoking and generates hope for the future!......more

Goodreads review by Cecile on December 09, 2020

An important book that does not focus on the causes and very existence of global warming (he assumes that this is accepted) but on the policies that can achieve net zero carbon emissions. It’s very pragmatic (and also fairly depressing) and goes through the time wasted and the failure of attempts at......more


Quotes

A Nature Book of the Week ‘You should read it’ Julian Glover, Evening Standard ‘The reasons I enjoyed this book are fivefold and I think they are reasons that many readers of this blog would enjoy it too. This book is very clearly written, on an important subject, by someone who knows their stuff, by someone who is a friend of the natural environment and, perhaps most importantly, it challenges my own starting point on this subject.’ Mark Avery ‘Dieter Helm is one of Britain's foremost experts on energy economics and he has written a terrific book on the next agenda item once the Covid emergency has passed. It is also an angry book … A fine overview of our climate policy failures and the options for doing better.’ Sunday Independent