To keep the global average temperature from rising further than 2 C, emissions must peak soon and then fall steeply. This book examines how such rapid mitigation can proceed in the scale and speed required for effective climate action using an analogy provided by the mobilisation for a war that encompassed nations, the Second World War. "

Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation" examines the wartime-climate analogy by drawing lessons from wartime mobilisations to develop contingency plans for a scenario where governments implement stringent mitigation programs as an insurance policy...