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A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

UK edition: A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

US edition: The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

Italian edition: Un piano per salvare il pianeta

A Blueprint for a Safer Planet was published in the UK on 2 April. It can be purchased at all good bookshops and can be ordered here|

The author writes:

"The argument that the dangers of climate change are great and that the world should act strongly and urgently is, or should be, over. We should now be working on the policy and strategic response. The main purpose of this book is to argue that what we now understand is sufficient to point us unequivocally to measured and structure policies that involve deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, in efficient and equitable ways, and that promote considered and careful adaptation to the effects of the climate change which will occur. I offer a blueprint of how to build a safer planet, or how to manage climate change while creating a new era of growth and prosperity. This is emphatically not a blueprint in the sense of a master plan of the kind that sued to emerge from planning commissions in centrally planned economics. It examines what we now need: strategies, international understandings and policies that will guide action, correct the biggest market failure the world has seen and provide a framework for the entrepreneurship and discovery across the whole of business and society, which can show us how to achieve a cleaner, safer, more sustainable pattern of growth and development." – Nicholas Stern, April 2009

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