Arriving in the wake of the Department for Education’s [in England] strategy for sustainability and climate change, and announcement of a new Natural History GCSE [General Certificate of Education], this book comes across as a timely addition to the debate around climate change. As well as being bang up-to-date in the information it contains, the book presents a balanced account of the issues and evidence involved.

It’s a volume that lives up to its series’ ‘Learning made easy’ tagline, successfully making complex processes and principles eminently understandable. For British readers, though, there’s one obvious drawback to using the book for classroom inspiration in that there’s a fairly heavy focus in places on US-centric systems and proposals.

The authors also present some very bold and optimistic assessments of our collective renewable energy sources, when it still seems we’re not quite there yet...

For a slightly different version of this review, which was published in Teach Secondary magazine, please see Two for the price of one!