New Defra Book: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

Citation

(2006), "New Defra Book: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 17 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2006.08317dae.004

New Defra Book: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change

Temperatures are expected to continue to rise and extreme events are likely to become more frequent with climate change, but how much climate change can we take? How can we avoid levels, which can be considered dangerous? The Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change book, launched last week by the UK agency for environment and transport, Defra, explores these questions. The book gives an account of the most recent developments on the science of climate change, explores how much climate change is too much and how can we avoid it. It examines the consequences of different levels of climate change in terms of impacts for different sectors and regions, as well as the world as a whole. And it considers technological options that can be deployed to achieve different levels of climate change as the world moves to a lower carbon economy. Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change builds on the scientific findings presented at the “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change” Conference, which took place at the Met Office, Exeter in February 2005 at the start of the UK's G8 Presidency.

The book has been prepared by an editorial board, led by Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, and is published by Cambridge University Press, price £70. More details are available at: www.cambridge.org/0521864712. It is also available together with an executive summary, from the Defra web site: www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/internat/dangerous-cc.htm.