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In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy.   “An optimistically levelheaded book about actually dealing with global warming.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “[Dieter Helm] has turned his agile mind to one of the great problems of our age: why the world’s efforts to curb the carbon dioxide emissions behind global warming have gone so wrong, and how it can do better.”—Pilita Clark, Financial Times

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""A devastating analysis of why the world has failed to do much about global warming - and a plan for how markets can help governments do much better.""—David G. Victor, author of Global Warming Gridlock -- David G. Victor

A devastating analysis of why the world has failed to do much about global warming - and a plan for how markets can help governments do much better. -David G. Victor, author of Global Warming Gridlock -- David G. Victor

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Dieter Helm is professor of energy policy, University of Oxford; fellow in economics at New College, Oxford; and professorial research fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford. He is chair of the world’s first Natural Capital Committee.

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