Strategies for rapid climate mitigation : wartime mobilisation as a model for action?

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 8
Copyright Page......Page 9
Dedication......Page 10
Table of Contents......Page 12
List of tables......Page 14
Foreword......Page 15
Preface......Page 18
Abbreviations......Page 21
Currencies......Page 23
Measurements......Page 24
Introduction......Page 26
What this book offers......Page 29
Sociotechnical transitions......Page 33
‘The state’ and mobilisations......Page 35
Plan of the book......Page 38
A global challenge, a global ambition......Page 46
‘Extremely dangerous’ warming......Page 52
Climate change as ‘threat multiplier’ of large-scale societal crises......Page 56
Towards rapid mitigation......Page 58
Focus on sustainable energy transitions......Page 66
The technical and economic feasibility of sustainable energy......Page 68
The technological portfolio for rapid climate mitigation......Page 74
Technical strategies for the Rapid Mitigation Project......Page 79
A Rapid Mitigation Agreement......Page 92
Magnitude of mitigation......Page 100
Magnitude and intensity of wartime mobilisation......Page 102
The ‘most enormous room in the history of man’......Page 108
Intensity, scale, volume......Page 115
Pricing emissions......Page 118
Taxing carbon pollution......Page 120
Public borrowing......Page 125
Complementary climate finance......Page 127
International cooperation......Page 129
Public capital......Page 131
Winners and losers......Page 140
New opportunities......Page 143
Skilling and re-skilling......Page 145
Protecting the labour force......Page 148
Maximum income......Page 151
Labour outsourcing......Page 152
Bringing ‘the state’ back......Page 157
Planning blueprints......Page 160
Strong executive control......Page 168
Countervailing power......Page 174
Convergences......Page 180
Divergences......Page 183
The limits of the book......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 193
Index......Page 201