Global Sustainability – A Nobel Cause Schellnhuber, H. J., M. Molina, N. Stern, V. Huber and S. Kadner (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, USA ISBN-13: 9780521769341 pp. 392

Front matter (including blurb and editor biographies)
Contents
Foreword Angela Merkel
Preface Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Mario Molina, Nicholas Stern, Veronika Huber, and Susanne Kadner
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Save the boot room. Ian McEwan

PART I
The Great Transformation

• Chapter 1: Transformations of the twenty-first century: transitions to greater sustainability. Murray Gell-Mann
• Chapter 2 (commentary on chapter 1): Integrated sustainability and the underlying threat of urbanization. Geoffrey B. West
• Chapter 3 (commentary on chapter 1): Earth system analysis and taking a crude look at the whole. Wolfgang Lucht
• Chapter 4: Making progress within and beyond borders. Johan Rockström, Katrin Vohland, Wolfgang Lucht, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Ernst Ulrich vonand Weizsäcker, and Tariq Banuri
• Chapter 5: Towards a sustainable future. James P. Leape and Sarah Humphrey
  

PART II
Climate stabilization and sustainable development

• Chapter 6: Scientific understanding of climate change and consequences for a global deal. Stefan Rahmstorf, Jennifer Morgan, Anders Levermann, and Karsten Sach
• Chapter 7: Towards a global deal on climate change. Nicholas Stern and Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels
• Chapter 8: Commentary: The German contribution to a global deal. Sigmar Gabriel
• Chapter 9: A ‘just’ climate agreement: the framework for an effective global deal. Sunita Narain
• Chapter 10: Commentary: Carbon justice and forestation – the African perspective. Wangari Maathai
• Chapter 11: Carbon offsets, the CDM, and sustainable development. Diana M. Liverman
• Chapter 12: Insights into the climate challenge. Rajendra Pachauri
• Chapter 13 (commentary on chapter 12): Climate change – learning from the stratospheric ozone challenge. Mario Molina
• Chapter 14: Climate change, poverty eradication, and sustainable development. Nitin Desai
• Chapter 15 (commentary on chapter 14): Development and sustainability: conflicts and congruence. Kirit S. Parikh
  

PART III
Institutional and economic incentives

• Chapter 16: Robust options for decarbonizsation. Thomas Bruckner, Ottmar Edenhofer, Hermann Held, Markus Haller, Michael Lüken, Nico Bauer, and Nebojsa Nakicenovic
• Chapter 17: Price and quantity regulation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Ottmar Edenhofer, Robert Pietzcker, Matthias Kalkuhl, and Elmar Kriegler
• Chapter 18 (commentary on chapter 17): Controlling climate change economically. James Mirrlees
• Chapter 19: What is the top priority on climate change? Paul Klemperer
• Chapter 20: Research and technology for sustainability – a global cause. Annette Schavan
• Chapter 21 (commentary on chapter 20): Energy research and technology for a transition toward a more sustainable future. Nebojsa Nakicenovic

PART IV
Technological innovation and energy security

• Chapter 22: A world powered predominantly by solar and wind energy. Walter Kohn [Addendum to chapter 22]
• Chapter 23: Low-cost ‘plastic’ solar cells: a dream becoming a reality. Alan Heeger
• Chapter 24: Smart grids, smart loads, and energy storage. Joachim Luther
• Chapter 25: The SuperSmart Grid – paving the way for a completely renewable power system. Antonella Battaglini, Johan Lilliestam, and Gerhard Knies
• Chapter 26: Getting the carbon out of transportation fuels. Felix S. Creutzig and Daniel M. Kammen
• Chapter 27: Opportunities for technological transformations: from climate change to climate management? Maria Magdalena Titirici, Dieter Murach, and Markus Antonietti
  

PART V
A global contract between science and society

• Chapter 28: Promoting science, technology and innovation for sustainability in Africa. Mohamed H. A. Hassan
• Chapter 29: Information flow: the basis for sustainable participation. John Sulston
• Chapter 30 (commentary on chapter 29): Educating and motivating global society. Susanne Kadner
• Chapter 31 (commentary on chapter 29): Democracy and participation. Achim Steiner
  

PART VI
The Potsdam Memorandum

• Chapter 32: Potsdam Memorandum
• Chapter 33 (commentary on chapter 32): The Potsdam Memorandum: a remarkable outcome of a most important conference. Klaus Töpfer
  

APPENDIX
Glossary
Co-authors’ biographies