Great that climate change is becoming such an important issue

but I’ve been in this area long enough to remember when political leaders didn’t listen to thought leaders like @TerryBarker21 @MichaelGrubb9 Paul Ekins etc

These guys had solutions 25+ years ago

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Back then we had time to affect change gradually.

Now every Joe has their own non-evidenced based idea that will “get this done”. Give me strength.

Carbon pricing (at a meaningful price) is useful but insufficient and regressive, this is well understood.

For the U.K. context we need a mixture of policies that include regulation and market based incentives applied in complementary ways.

Tapping into mission oriented innovation as espoused by @MazzucatoM and reaping the virtuous circle of innovation as explained by @DimitriZ

Heating will be the most controversial problem to solve and it’s complexities are numerous as set out by @theCCCuk but mass government funded retrofitting of fuel poor households is the priority action for the next five years as recommended by @Mabeytweet @Ed_Matthew1

Transport emissions will fall as EV uptake increases. We’re already somewhat into this transition as @JFMercure and @HectorPollitt have shown. Government can provide the infrastructure and policy stability to speed this up.

Rail infrastructure is also critical.

British industries should not suffer because we want to lead the world on climate action but subsidies to offset carbon costs are not the answer. The solution has to be innovation led and focussed on the largest emitting sectors. @MichaelGrubb9 explains this clearly

Governments can and should break any idea of fiscal rules for climate measures. It makes little sense to worry about leaving our children financial debt rather than climate catastrophe. @RichardJMurphy @D_Blanchflower @ProfSteveKeen etc are completely right on this...

Moreover, if we were better able to measure our economy within our ecological depletion - as put forward, in different ways, by @DianeCoyle1859 and @KateRaworth - then politicians would be more clearly incentivised to sort this out

Economists have a plurality of appropriate analytical methods and clear answers to these questions.

The wheel does not need reinventing.

Politicians need to come together, listen to these experts and get on with it!

The time for dithering is long gone.
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As @TerryBarker21 @richard_lewney @HectorPollitt have regularly and consistently shown the cost of climate change mitigation action, while requiring enormous structural change, is likely to lead only to small negative net impacts and possibly positive for economies like the UK...

... and that ignores the cost of climate change on the world economy. Which is difficult to quantify, because modern humanity has never experienced anything like it, but it’s expected to be a different scale of impact to the mitigation cost

@MichaelEMann @ProfSteveKeen

And while I agree that a so-called “Just Transition” is a laudable aim, I invite those who put it ahead of action to consider the injustice of climate change on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.

I forgot to mention the co-benefits...

(eg improved air quality leading to improved health and reducing pressure on the NHS @felly500 @ChrisThoung )

many of the co-benefits are not properly understood and probably cautiously underestimated as a result.