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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.
Introduction to the climate problem (short form)
Introduction to climate solutions
Tools of the trade
Electrify (almost) everything
Decarbonize electricity
Minimize non-fossil warming agents
Efficiency and optimization
Remove carbon
Align incentives
Mobilize money
Elevate truth
Bringing it all together
Our climate-positive future
Appendix A. Introduction to the climate problem (long form)
Appendix B. Modeling capital stock growth and turnover
Appendix C. How we know that much existing fossil capital will need to retire
Appendix D. Expanded Kaya decomposition
Appendix E. Proper treatment of primary energy
Appendix F. Estimated annual revenues from fossil fuel companies and tobacco companies in 2019
Appendix G. The effect of carbon prices on existing coal-fired electricity generation and retail gasoline prices