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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 

'Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth' at the 2008 Hay Festival

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Ending poverty in a carbon constrained world: rapid transition and new development directions
Against the backdrop of compelling evidence on climate change, ECOSOC devoted a Special Event to how to address the growing risks posed by climate change to human development. nef policy director, Andrew Simms opened the event
2012 Olympics will break 'legacy' promise unless rules are changed quickly 21/04/08
A new nef report, Fool’s Gold, shows that unless cast-iron guarantees are built into plans for the 2012 Olympics, the Games will fail to leave the promised positive local legacy for the poorest residents of East London.
Green ideas for the Chancellor's red box 11/03/08
As Alistair Darling puts the finishing touches to his Budget statement, writing for the BBC's Green Room, nef policy director, Andrew Simms says that the UK's chancellor should be thinking in terms of an envrionmental war economy.
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