Designing Climate Solutions

Hal Harvey with Robbie Orvis and Jeffrey Rissman (2019)

Hal Harvey is the CEO of Energy Innovation, a San Francisco-based energy and environmental firm delivering research and analysis to policymakers around the world. Harvey was honoured with the United Nation’s Clean Air and Climate Change Award in 2018.

‘Designing Climate Solutions’ provides an intuitive breakdown of emissions across each area of the economy, and each region of the world, to highlight where implementing policy will create the biggest bang for our buck. The book highlights the importance of creating policy which is upstream, informationally efficient, and therefore covers the most emissions with minimal effort. That policy should always focus on the outcome, and use the market to drive efficiency by creating robust, well-enforced, clearly set-out, continuous yet long-term targets, and by addressing barriers to action such as market failures, soft costs, and unnecessary red-tape.

I found ‘Designing Climate Solutions’ extremely clear, pragmatic, and well rounded, with case studies used to great effect in illustrating each of the arguments. The book makes light work of complex climate wonkery, and is well worth adding to your reading list.

For more details see the Energy Policy Solutions website.

*Book cover credit: David Ter Avanesyan

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