The Edge
How competition for resources is pushing the world, and its climate, to the brink – and what we can do about it.
$59.89
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2023
Summary
We Are At the Edge, Not the End, of History
Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Why have energy costs and inflation been so high? Why is there is there a cost-of-living crisis? Why does the climate crisis keep getting worse? What causes conflict, socio-economic crises, and climate change and what can you do about it, for your family, your business, and your country?
Global events, however long their origins, too often seem out of our control and suddenly to transform the world arou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399810845 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399810847 |
| Author: | Jonathan Maxwell |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Business |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 136mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
The statistics in Maxwell’s book are stunning. Energy, like food and water, is in increasingly short supply. But for all of these, we waste most of what we are fighting over. – Edward Lucas, The Times
The Edge is the only book you need to make sense of the global energy crisis. – Reader’s Digest
A very important contribution. One of the huge comparative advantages of this book is the seriousness and knowledge about energy and efficiency. It explains how critical resource efficiency, relating to energy, but also to other scarce resources such as food, water, minerals, and time will be to managing the enormous geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges in front of all of us today. – Lord Stern, Chair of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics
The Edge is an eloquent roller coaster ride through the unfolding of the modern climate crisis, well informed, up to date and well articulated, a project that keeps one eye on global energy and resource use growth, and one on energy and resource wastage … an important and urgent book … – Dr Andrew Lee, University of Oxford Climate Alumni Network
For years we have been told that the most valuable unit of energy is the unit we don’t use. But turning that observation into real flows of finance has proven elusive. Jonathan has a clear vision for how to change that - and more than just a vision, he’s got the receipts: he’s done it, at scale on five continents. – Michael Liebreich, Founder of Bloomberg NEF and Host of Cleaning Up
Superb – The Sunday Times.
‘The Edge’ is a very contemporary look at how the world has been transformed by recent events, focusing on climate change, the war in Ukraine, the next resource flashpoints, and the challenges the world faces around energy, security, the environment and the economy. – Mike Michelsen, NetGalley
About The Author
Jonathan Maxwell
Jonathan Maxwell is the Founder and CEO of Sustainable Development Capital, LLP (‘SDCL’), an award-winning independent investment firm with over US$2 billion of investment capital focussed on efficient and decentralised generation of energy (‘EDGE’). SDCL is investment manager of the SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc, the first investment company of its kind to focus on energy efficiency projects and a constituent of the FTSE 250 index. Jonathan has over 27 years’ experience in business and finance with 15 years at the helm of one of the UK’s only independent sustainability and climate-focussed investment firms, and is a frequent commentator in the media on energy markets, the environment and climate change.
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