Introduction to 'Climate-change Policy'
5th May 2005 publication
In D. Helm (ed.), Climate-change Policy, published May 2005 by Oxford University Press, pp. 1-10. The importance of climate change is now widely accepted. From being a research topic, it has moved to the political stage, and whilst most politicians have yet to see it as a 'greater threat than weapons of mass destruction', the main political parties of almost all developed countries have accepted that emissions of greenhouse gases will have to be curbed to avoid serious climate change.