Meeting the Climate Challenge

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The Recommendations of the International Climate Change Taskforce.

Climate change, energy security, and the urgent need to increase access to modern energy services for the world's poor create an enormous need for more efficient low-carbon and no-carbon energy-supply options.

Alongside the Centre for American Progress and the Australia Institute, ippr founded an international taskforce to investigate all aspects of climate change and formulate policies to combat it.

This interim report, setting out the taskforce's recommendations, is both a practical policy handbook, and passionate call for action on this most vital of issues. Printed copies of this report are no longer available. The report is available as a free download via the link below.

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