Try free for 30 days

1 credit a month to use on any title, yours to keep (you’ll use your first credit on this title).
Stream or download thousands of included titles.
Access to exclusive deals and discounts.
$16.45 a month after 30 day trial. Cancel anytime.
What We Need to Do Now cover art

What We Need to Do Now

By: Chris Goodall
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Try for $0.00

$16.45 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $21.99

Buy Now for $21.99

Pay using voucher balance (if applicable) then card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions Of Use and Privacy Notice and authorise Audible to charge your designated credit card or another available credit card on file.

Publisher's Summary

The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. 

So how do we get there? 

Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. His proposals include:  

  • Building a huge over-capacity of wind and solar energy, storing the excess as hydrogen.
  • Using hydrogen to fuel our trains, shipping, boilers and heavy industry, while electrifying buses, trucks and cars. 
  • Farming - and eating - differently, encouraging plant-based alternatives to meat-paying farmers to plant and maintain woodlands.
  • Making fashion sustainable and aviation pay its way, funding synthetic fuels and genuine offsets. 
  • Using technical solutions to capture CO2 from the air and biochar to lock carbon in the soil.  

What We Need to Do Now is an urgent, practical and inspiring book that signals a green new deal for Britain.

©2020 Chris Goodall (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

Critic Reviews

"This is exactly the kind of mapping out that we need to make the zero carbon world happen. Chris Goodall's plan is well argued." (Mike Berners-Lee)

"Chris Goodall is the kind of person we need to lead us to safety faced with climate change. I learned so much. It's crisp, superbly researched - and remarkably calm. We can do this." (Tim Harford)

More from the same

What listeners say about What We Need to Do Now

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.