Guest blog: The Common-sense Solutions to our Climate and Nature Crises
Guest blog by Neil Kitching: a geographer who works as an Energy Specialist for a public agency in Scotland. His role is to support innovation and investment by businesses in renewable and low carbon heat and water solutions. The Sustainable Development Goals are a comprehensive package of targets to make the planet greener, to improve equality and to enhance our lives. However, most politicians and pressure groups only have the capacity to focus on one major issue. I have written my first book, Carbon Choices, on the common-sense solutions to our climate and nature crises. What is interesting is that when I look at the book in relation to the 17 sustainable development goals I find that my book touches on them all. Maybe that is the geographer in me coming to the fore – jack of all trades, but master of none. Clearly ‘climate action’ and ‘clean energy’ is at the core of the book. We need to tax fossil fuels, sub...