The book analyses climate change as a problem
of ecological debt. Using the economic analogy
of financial debt it then explores what
adjustment might mean in high consuming
Western countries. It explores obstacles
to change and which global frameworks are
most likely to succeed in overcoming them.
With case studies, Ecological Debt also
explores the impact of climate change on
the pursuit of international poverty reduction
targets and investigates a paradox of our
age: how the global wealth gap was built
on ecological debts, which the world's poorest
are now having to pay for. The book shows
what can be done differently in the future
- and what steps we can take to stop pushing
the planet to the point of environmental
bankruptcy.
Andrew Simms is policy director of nef
(new economics foundation). He led campaigns
for several major aid and development agencies
and was one of the original organisers of
the Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign. He
is on the board of Greenpeace UK and The
Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Europe.
For more information go to: www.neweconomics.org
Contact: andrew.simms@neweconomics.org
