Fighting Global Warming: A Problematic Economic Integration: Explaining the daunting economic plan behind COP21 - Couverture souple

Lannoye, Vincent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1973884542 ISBN 13 : 9781973884545

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

(UPDATED JULY 2025)
Global warming: no clear plan of action

The shift to a low-carbon economy is progressing slowly—even in countries committed to addressing climate change. This is not due to a lack of awareness, but to the high cost of cutting emissions. That cost presents policymakers with an impossible dilemma: how to advance climate goals without placing excessive financial strain on lower- and middle-income families or risking job losses. The bottom half of the population cannot simply be pushed into poverty while the upper half suffers little. Any solution must be fair, or it will be rejected by angry voters at the ballot box. Achieving net-zero emissions is not just a technical challenge—it is fundamentally an economic one.

Addressing this issue requires a clear, well-reasoned approach—beginning with the rejection of unrealistic regulatory fixes. From there, the priority should be to build a strong economic foundation that enables practical and effective solutions.

Technological breakthroughs: the last hope for accelerating the transition?

Fossil-fuel dependence has dragged on, but there is hope that emerging technologies will provide cheaper clean alternatives in the coming years. The crucial question is whether these innovations will materialize at a cost low enough and on a scale large enough to mitigate global warming.
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Given that progress hinges on uncertain technological breakthroughs, the final section references The Green-Market System, which outlines a strategy to accelerate the circulation of money. After all, even a small increase in economic growth can shift the public mood from stagnation to optimism—and may even influence election outcomes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vincent Lannoye was born in the US and grew up in Belgium in an industrial family, which sparked his curiosity to analyze and critique economics and politics. An engineer with an MBA from Edhec France, today he works in high-tech in Silicon Valley.
His past, his passion for politics, economics, and the challenge of limiting global warming, all have inspired him to write about economics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1973884542
• ISBN 13: 9781973884545
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg