The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress - Softcover

Jaccard, Mark

 
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Shows readers how we can all help solve the climate crisis by focusing on a few key, achievable actions.

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A professor of sustainable energy at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Jaccard has a Ph.D. in economics from Université de Grenoble. He has helped many governments with climate-energy policy, including serving on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the 1990s, he chaired British Columbia's utilities commission and in the 2000s he helped design its famous carbon tax, clean electricity standard and other climate-energy policies. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his research, and a frequent media presence in Canada and the US. His book, Sustainable Fossil Fuels (Cambridge, 2005), won the Donner Prize. His efforts on the climate challenge range from testifying before the US Congress and the European Commission to being arrested for blocking a coal train, as he explains in this book.

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ISBN 10:  1108479375 ISBN 13:  9781108479370
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE, 2020
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