02299cam a2200337 i 4500 11470801 20250923115234.0 200114t20202020nyuab b 000 0 eng 2019047560 9781838770822 (OCoLC)on1120954658 (CaBVaU)11470801 DLC eng DLC rda OCLCO OCLCF OCO UAP IH9 ILC GZN YDX VP@ Z#6 OCL VFL UND NhCcYME UtOrBLW English QC903 .F54 2020 Figueres, Christiana author 25747 The future we choose : surviving the climate crisis / Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac. First edition. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. xxvi, 210 pages : illustration, map ; 20 cm Business book summary "This is a Borzoi Book" --Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210). In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity. In The Future We Choose, the authors outline two possible scenarios for the planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris targets for carbon dioxide emission reduction. In the other, they describe what it will take to create and live in a carbon-neutral, regenerative world. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head on, with determination and optimism. How we all of us address the climate crisis in the next thirty years will determine not only the world we will live in but also the world we will bequeath to our children and theirs. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us, in no uncertain terms, what governments, corporations, and each of us can and must do to fend off disaster. Climatic changes Forecasting 25954 Climatic changes Social aspects 25955 Environmental policy Forecasting 25956 Global environmental change Economic aspects 5205 Rivett-Carnac, Tom author 25748 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-08-25 0 QC903 FIG B07593 2025-08-25 1 2025-08-25 1 4854 4854