Climate Change: Solution in Sight

Climate Change: Solution in Sight

Is it necessary to drastically reduce the amount of greenhouse gases into the global atmosphere and is it possible to achieve this? The answer on both questions was already in 2000 a wholehearted ‘yes’ according to a Dutch think tank. Below you can find the booklet prepared by the Climate Policy Working Group, which I chaired.

Climate Change: Solution in Sight

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