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Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change, by Simon Sharpe Cambridge University Press, 2023, 344 pp, £20 hb ISBN 9781009326490

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Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change, by Simon Sharpe Cambridge University Press, 2023, 344 pp, £20 hb ISBN 9781009326490

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2024

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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 223 - 226
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8 See similarly S. Keen, ‘The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change’ (2021) 18(7) Globalizations, pp. 1149–77.

9 See also T.M. Lenton et al., ‘Operationalising Positive Tipping Points Towards Global Sustainability’ (2022) 5 Global Sustainability, article e1; Lenton et al., n. 4 above, section 4; J.D. Farmer et al., ‘Sensitive Intervention Points in the Post-carbon Transition’ (2019) 364(6436) Science, pp. 132–4.

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11 Ibid.

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14 Again, lawyers should take note of the potential to apply transition theory to international law in the area of energy transitions. For a recent example see Hailes, O. & Viñuales, J.E., ‘The Energy Transition at a Critical Juncture’ (2023) 26(4) Journal of International Economic Law, pp. 627–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 New York, NY (United States), 9 May 1992, in force 21 Mar. 1994, available at: https://unfccc.int.

16 To get an idea of how such a global signal would appear, look no further than Decision -/CMA.5, n. 7 above, para. 28(g) (which very broadly calls for ‘[a]ccelerating the reduction of emissions from road transport on a range of pathways, including through development of infrastructure and rapid deployment of zero-and low-emission vehicles’).

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