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How to Get Where We Need to Go

How to Get Where We Need to Go

Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency, and Nicholas Stern, the most distinguished economist in the world working on climate change, have an op-ed in today’s Financial Times:  Urgent steps to stop the climate door closing.  They say we must have a much greater emphasis on energy efficiency, a “price on carbon” and an end to fossil fuel subsidies, and increased fuel economy and new vehicle technologies.  Read their analysis.  Send it to your friends.  Get on board.

 

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Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt has been an environmental activist and professional for nearly 25 years. He was deeply involved in the battle to curtail acid rain, and was also a Sierra Club leader in New York City. He spent 11 years in public affairs for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked on environmental issues for two NYC mayoral campaigns and a presidential campaign. He is a writer and editor and is the principal of Hewitt Communications. He has an M.S. in international affairs, has taught political science at Pace University, and has graduate and continuing education classes on climate change, sustainability, and energy and the environment at The Center for Global Affairs at NYU. His book, "A Newer World - Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis," will be out from the University Press of New England in December.



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the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change

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