THE WINNING OF THE CARBON WAR: POWER AND POLITICS ON THE FRONT LINES OF CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY
Book ID/图书代码： 08090018C00007
English Summary/英文概要： “A brilliant page turner, alternately daringly funny, coldly sobering, starkly terrifying – poetic, personal, beautiful and intensely urgent." Josh Fox, Emmy-winning film director
“Great fun to read; kind, tough, and often very funny.” Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics
“We can rely on Jeremy Leggett to provide an interesting and insightful perspective.” Richard Branson, Virgin Group
“A vital message that deserves as wide an audience as possible.” Mark Lewis, Barclays
“Entertaining, informative and almost impossible to put down.” Nicci Talbot, Huffington Post
Humanity is in a race, a kind of civil war.
On the light side, the believers in a sustainable future based on clean energy fight to save us from climate change. The dark side defends the continuing use of fossil fuels, often careless of the impact it has on the world.
Jeremy Leggett fought for the light side for a quarter of a century as it lost battle after battle. Then, in 2013, the tide began to turn. By 2015, it was clear the war could be won.
Leggett’s front-line chronicle tells one person’s story of those turnaround years, culminating in dramatic scenes at the Paris climate summit, and what they can mean for the world.
In this updated edition, an extra chapter summarises the events of 2016 and 2017 as they appear from the vantage point of another climate summit in Paris on the second anniversary of the original.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 從全世界第一份碳足跡報告，到2015年聯合國氣候峰會的巴黎協議
一個隻手改變世界的故事。
人類正在與時間賽跑。往光明的一面看，有些人相信綠色能源可以給我們一個永續的未來並從氣候變遷中拯救我們；然而往黑暗的一面看，現在全世界仍持續使用化石燃料並且往往對其造成的環境衝擊毫不關心，根據全世界第一份碳足跡告，現在所發現的化石燃料必須有整整80%留在地底下不被燃燒，才得以維持攝氏2度的全球暖化極限。這場關於化石燃料的戰爭，Jeremy Leggett已經參戰了四分之一個世紀，而且屢戰屢敗，直到2013年，情勢才開始逆轉，到了2015年年底時，才顯出可能戰勝的跡象。
打從1990年，Jeremy Leggett就開始對太陽能產生興趣，當時全世界所有的太陽能板產能總和不超過一年五千萬瓦特，如何理解這個數字？這僅僅只是當今中國一座太陽能廠一期的產電量。他在1999年成立了Solarcentury公司， 當2000年，他的公司在英國安裝第一片太陽能板時，全球的太陽能供電量總和仍然只有3億瓦特左右。而如今，Solarcentury公司已成為當前全球最重要的太陽能板安裝大廠，在全球四大洲十幾個國家安裝並發展太陽能發電。
2013年十月，他在倫敦俄羅斯大使館前為俄羅斯拘捕綠色和平的環保分子抗議（當時影星裘德洛和搖滾明星Damon Albarn也在人群當中），而到了2016年，這個曾經拿著AK-47對付抗議北極鑽探石油的和平抗議者的國家，已經積極加入發展綠能的行列，不想要在這波全新的綠能工業革命中落於人後。在中國方面，雖然中國在2000年的第一個十年內才剛剛加入市場，然而已經造就了大大的不同，讓全球的太陽能市場每年平均成長率增加到52%，到了2010年的時候，全球的太陽能產電量已經來到每年兩千億瓦特。
二十五年來，Jeremy Leggett始終站在這場戰爭的最前線，從催生全世界第一份碳足跡報告，到促成2015年聯合國氣候峰會的巴黎協議，本書不僅是他個人奮鬥的故事，也是一份給全世界的重要啟示。
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Awards/获奖情况：★亞馬遜93%讀者滿分五顆星推薦
★本書作者獲得榮譽包括：年度最佳新能源企業家獎（An Entrepreneur of the Year at the New Energy Awards）、紐西蘭希拉里國際領導獎勵機構桂冠獎、CNN Principal Voice、哥德堡永續發展獎（Gothenburg Prize）、荷蘭皇家名譽永續發展獎等等。
“A brilliant page turner, alternately daringly funny, coldly sobering, starkly terrifying – poetic, personal, beautiful and intensely urgent." Josh Fox, Emmy-winning film director
“We can rely on Jeremy Leggett to provide an interesting and insightful perspective.” Richard Branson, Virgin Group
“A vital message that deserves as wide an audience as possible.” Mark Lewis, Barclays
“Entertaining, informative and almost impossible to put down.” Nicci Talbot, Huffington Post
“It’s a masterpiece. Probably the most important book written on the greatest issue of our time since ‘An Inconvenient Truth’” Neville Williams
“Great fun to read; kind, tough, and often very funny.” Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics
About the Author/作者介绍： 傑瑞米·萊格特（Jeremy Leggett）是英國的社會企業家和作家。他著有The Carbon War, Half Gone, and The Energy of Nations等書。他創立了國際太陽能解決方案公司Solarcentury並擔任董事，該公司從2000起就是英國成長最快的再生能源公司，在四大洲十幾個國家發展和設立太陽能發電，他也並創立了SolarAid並擔任主席，這是一家由Solarcentury每年利潤的5％資助的慈善機構，該機構主持一項稱為SunnyMoney的非營利社企計畫，已在非洲售出超過200萬座太陽能照明。他獲得了年度最佳新能源企業家獎（An Entrepreneur of the Year at the New Energy Awards），並被《觀察家報》譽為「英國最受尊敬的綠能老闆。」他是紐西蘭希拉里國際領導獎勵機構頒發的第一位希拉里桂冠獎得主，獎勵他在氣候變遷議題方面的貢獻，他也是CNN Principal Voice，並獲得哥德堡永續發展獎（Gothenburg Prize），並且是荷蘭皇家名譽永續發展獎的第一位非荷蘭籍得主。他在劍橋大學以及瑞士的聖加倫大學主講關於社會企業的課程，並且是牛津大學環境變遷學會的研究員。他也不時為許多主要國際媒體撰稿，包括《衛報》和《金融時報》。
他的官方網站：www.jeremyleggett.net
Jeremy Leggett is an award-winning social entrepreneur and critically-acclaimed author whose books include The Carbon War, Half Gone, and The Energy of Nations. He is founder and a director of Solarcentury, the UK’s fastest growing renewable energy company since 2000, now developing and installing solar in a dozen countries on four continents. He is also founder and chairman of SolarAid, an African solar lighting charity set up with five percent of Solarcentury’s annual profit’s, itself parent to a non-profit social venture, SunnyMoney, that has sold almost two million solar lights in Africa. An Entrepreneur of the Year at the New Energy Awards, he has been described by the Observer as ’Britain’s most respected green energy boss’. He was the first Hillary Laureate for International Leadership in Climate Change, a CNN Principal Voice, has won a Gothenburg Prize, and was the first non-Dutch winner of a Royal Dutch Honorary Sustainability Award. He lectures on short courses in business and society at the universities of Cambridge and St Gallen, and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. An occasional writer for national media including the Guardian and the Financial Times, he maintains a website blog on the opportunities and dangers of tech: www.jeremyleggett.net
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