What We Need to Do Now

For a Zero Carbon Future

Author: Chris Goodall

A manifesto for groups around the world that are seeking urgent action on climate breakdown and other threats

A perfect blueprint for a zero carbon future.

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A manifesto for groups around the world that are seeking urgent action on climate breakdown and other threats

A perfect blueprint for a zero carbon future.

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What We Need To Do Now sets out a comprehensive programme of action to counter the threats to our environment. It is a manifesto for groups around the world that are seeking urgent action on climate breakdown and other threats.

Emphasising the importance and relative simplicity of decarbonising our energy supply, the book also stresses that this is a small part of the switch to a sustainable planet. Among many other urgent transitions, we also need to focus on changing the agricultural system and reducing our hugely wasteful use of resources. As importantly, we need to make sure that the transition to a zero carbon world benefits the less well-off and reinvigorates the smaller cities and towns around the world that have been left behind.

This is a practical, original and inspiring book: a new green deal for an inhabitable earth.

Critic Reviews

When economist Chris Goodall was writing this pleasingly accessible book, G7 countries had just begun to set net zero emission targets, and his idea of meeting those goals by boosting renewable electricity enough to create hydrogen-powered economies seemed highly ambitious. Today, it's going mainstream as countries around the world bet on just that strategy. -- Pitta Clark Financial Times – Environment Books of the Year
This is exactly the kind of mapping out that we need to make the zero carbon world happen. Chris Goodall's plan is well argued and delightfully readable. -- Mike Berners-Lee, author There is no Planet B, How Bad are Bananas?
Chris Goodall is the kind of person we need to lead us to safety faced with climate change. I learned so much reading this book. It's crisp, superbly researched - and remarkably calm. We can do this. -- Tim Harford, author 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy, presenter, More or Less
Praise for Ten Technologies:'Brilliantly concise and clear-eyed.' New Scientist
Praise for How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: 'Valuable ammunition for those who want to do something about global warming ... Goodall is a pioneer.' Guardian
The Switch'A highly readable book ... for anyone interested in the future of energy.' Financial Times

About the Author

Chris Goodall has been working in energy technology and climate change for more than a decade. He wrote the pioneering How to Live a Low-Carbon Life (2007), Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (2010) and The Switch (on solar power, 2010). He chairs one of the UK's leading car charging companies. He is also an angel investor in several innovative and new businesses in the green economy.

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What We Need To Do Now sets out a comprehensive programme of action to counter the threats to our environment. It is a manifesto for groups around the world that are seeking urgent action on climate breakdown and other threats. Emphasising the importance and relative simplicity of decarbonising our energy supply, the book also stresses that this is a small part of the switch to a sustainable planet. Among many other urgent transitions, we also need to focus on changing the agricultural system and reducing our hugely wasteful use of resources. As importantly, we need to make sure that the transition to a zero carbon world benefits the less well-off and reinvigorates the smaller cities and towns around the world that have been left behind. This is a practical, original and inspiring book: a new green deal for an inhabitable earth.