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before the Earth's climate could 'tip'.

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HOW WE CAN TURN CLIMATE CHANGE INTO A CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE

We tend to see climate change as an overwhelmingly daunting threat requiring impossible sacrifices. But it's time to rethink say a range of notable experts brought together by nef and the Open University - who share a conviction that living well need not cost the earth.

Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth is available from Amazon and all good bookshops

nef news


	100 months: Why we must act now on climate change, and where to begin 01/01/08 Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warns today. We have only 100 months to avoid disaster. nef's policy director, Andrew Simms, explains why we must act now - and where to begin.


	UK needs ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle ‘triple crunch’ of credit, oil price and climate crises 21/07/08 75 years since President Roosevelt launched a New Deal to rescue the US from financial crisis, a new group of experts in finance, energy and the environment have come together to propose a Green New Deal for the UK


	How 'co-production' can help re-build our communities 16/07/08 nef's co-production manifesto shows how public services can play a part in rebuilding and reinvigorating the core economy (the networks and relationships that make society work) so that its potential can be realised.

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