GREAT PILES OF reports, analysis and recommendations have for years accumulated in government departments on what to do about climate change. Much of what is proposed is obvious enough. Avoiding energy wastage, more efficient use of energy, more renewable power, planning rules that require buildings to be better insulated, cleaner cars and better public transport are among a host of now familiar themes. Although we have known all this for some time, in most countries carbon dioxide emissions are still going up. Given the increasingly clear and alarming conclusions of climate change science, the ...
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