Better Planet : Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future by Daniel C. Esty ...

Yale University Press

A Better PlanetForty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future\nAuthor(s): Daniel C. Esty, Ingrid C. Burke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300255225, 978-0300255225\nSynopsis\nA practical, bipartisan call to action from the worlds leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority in the past decade. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges such as the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and air pollution. But in the United States, partisan divides, regional disputes, and deep disagreements over core principles have made it nearly impossible to chart a course toward a sustainable future. This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and for.