Into the Clear Blue Sky

A leading climate scientist explores the boldest new solutions from around the worldWhether through cutting-edge climate engineering technologies such as electric motorbikes, hydrogen-powered ships and fossil-free steel production, or natural solutions like rewilding peatlands, people all over the world are finding new ways to travel, feed themselves and power industry while safeguarding a liveable planet for future generations. In this book, climate scientist and chair of the Global Carbon Project, Rob Jackson, introduces us to the brilliant leaders and innovators behind some of the boldest climate solutions under development – including an Eritrean agricultural scientist, a Swedish CEO and a Brazilian hydrologist. Climate change is here and we have more tools to combat it than ever before – by cutting emissions in inventive new ways that protect our health and livelihoods, and by repairing the damage we have caused. Into the Clear Blue Sky explores the practical changes that can make drastic improvements to the atmosphere within our lifetime. This visionary and transformative book is the call to action we need right now.

A fascinating look into some of the cutting edge climate solutions—and for all its technical savvy, this book ends in the right place, with wonderful glimpses of activists like Rev. Lennox Yearwood and Rose Abramoff, who remind us that without movements, nothing can happen!

Rob Jackson is the chair of the Global Carbon Project, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy, and a professor of earth science at Stanford University, where he and his team research the many different ways people impact the earth.