Keywords:
Environmental economics-European Union Countries.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
No detailed description available for "A Climate Pact for Europe".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (144 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781529219159
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6741436
DDC:
333.7094
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- A Climate Pact For Europe: How to Finance the Green Deal -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- Acknowledgments: The English Translation -- How We Can Win the Battle -- 2020: A Warning Shot -- Foreword -- One 'Our Home Is Burning and We Are Looking Elsewhere' -- In Africa, harvests may be halved as the population doubles -- It is world peace that is at stake -- Two Global Warming: The Essential Cause Is Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- This time, the meteorite is us! -- Three 'Soon It Will Be Too Late…', Say 15,000 Scientists -- Our emissions continue to increase -- Four The UN Environment Programme Denounces 'This Catastrophic Climate Gap' between the Reductions Needed and the National Pledges -- Five Zero Net Carbon Emissions? Yes, It Is Possible -- Sufficiency and efficiency -- Repairing, recycling and reusing -- Housing, transport and agriculture: a full review of our model -- Investing massively in renewables -- Investing in research -- After Airbus and Ariane, the car of the future? -- Six Can We Make a Colossal Development Programme Work? We Can Do It! -- Victory Program versus America First -- 'We choose to go to the Moon' -- A budget multiplied by 15, and nearly 400,000 people mobilized -- Seven '€1,000 Billion for the Climate?' If It Is Really Needed, Yes, We Can Do It! -- €1,115 billion a year, according to the European Court of Auditors -- In 2014, the European Central Bank turned the table upside down -- €2,500 billion created in two and a half years -- New money for investment: 11 per cent of the sums created by the ECB -- Unprecedented alert on debts -- Global debt (private and public) has increased by US150 billion in 15 years and has reached 318 per cent of world GDP -- A brutal financial crisis -- 'The worst is before us' -- Homo sapiens sapiens or debilus debilus?.
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Eight Putting Finance Back at the Service of the Common Good: The European Climate Finance Pact -- Two per cent of GDP each year for 30 years -- Create a European bank dedicated to climate -- In 1989, six months were enough for Kohl and Mitterrand -- Finally, a European climate budget -- Stopping European fiscal dumping -- A climate contribution? A 5 per cent tax on profits that are not reinvested -- In France, -8 per cent + 5 per cent = -3 per cent -- Split the bill in half -- Make improvements in energy efficiency mandatory -- Nine Save the Climate and Save Europe? It Is Now or Never! -- A meeting of minds, the like of which has never been seen before -- Summit of 13 and 14 December 2018 -- Is this transformation possible? -- A transformative treaty, adopted by a pan-European referendum? -- Conclusion: Creating a New Development Model -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
