Zero Emission Network

Climate Code Red" is a superb, visionary blueprint for development in a new century which tackles the tough questions of how humanity can, in practice, rapidly secure a sustainable future. But it is also a work in progress, a draft strategy, which is primed to be shaped and developed by those who step up to meet the challenge we all now face."
-- Professor Barry W. Brook,
Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, Director,
Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability,
The University of Adelaide

CLIMATE CODE RED: the case for emergency action

by David Spratt & Philip Sutton / Scribe Publications

320 pages, paperback, ISBN (13): 9781921372209 RRP: $27.95

Climate policy is characterised by the habituation of low expectations and a culture of failure. There is an urgent need to understand global warming and the tipping points for dangerous impacts that we have already crossed as a sustainability emergency, that takes us beyond the politics of failure-inducing compromise. We are now in a race between climate tipping points and political tipping points.

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http://www.climatecodered.net

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Acclaim for Climate Code Red:

'This is a frightening but clear-eyed, well-informed, and sober consideration of the weight of evidence and argument on the imminent and quite possibly cataclysmic impacts of climate change. It is a wake-up call and antidote to the sanitised reporting on the state of the planet and global warming. As a social and environmental psychologist reader, this critical overview is impressive, comprehensive, and convincing.' -- Dr Joseph Retter

'... a compelling case for recognising, as the UN secretary-general has said, that we face a climate emergency.' -- Dr James Hansen, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies

'Climate Code Red applies an uncommon degree of common-sense to the latest climate science, and is a well-researched basis for building a truly meaningful response. It makes it abundantly clear that greenhouse-gas emissions have to stop entirely, and that even this must sit in a larger plan to manage our destabilised earth-atmosphere system.' -- Tim Helweg-Larsen, Director, Public Interest Research Centre, UK

'David Spratt and Philip Sutton have provided a valuable and sobering contribution to the policy challenge of climate change at a pivotal moment, with their key insight that the expectation of failure has become the norm in climate policy. Climate Code Red is a significant contribution which should be read by anyone seriously contemplating how to set greenhouse emission-reduction targets.' -- Senator Christine Milne, Australian Greens Party

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