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Geoff Lye

Geoff Lye is vice-chairman of SustainAbility, and a research fellow at Green College, Oxford.

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Climate change's right and wrong fixes

The publication of a major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, following the Bush administration admission of the issue's importance, marks a new phase in public debate. There are effective technological response to global warming, argue John Elkington & Geoff Lye, but they must be true and long-term.

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