Are transportation solutions doomed to fail climate-change actions? A book review

Omid Rouhani

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: I review a New York Times best-seller book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken. Drawdown provides many interesting solutions, descriptions, and arguments regarding the global impacts of climate change. Indeed, the book sets forth around 80 solutions and 20 coming to attractions (future options for combating climate change). In this review, however, I focus primarily on the book’s transport solutions. Overall, the book comes short of offering innovative and cost-effective solutions, in contrast to other sectors’ solutions. I believe the reason is the book’s narrow view regarding the overall impacts of transportation and latent opportunities in the sector.

Keywords: transportation; climate change; policies; GHG emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q20 Q54 R42 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12
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