
Graeme Maxton is the author of seven internationally acclaimed books on climate change, energy, economics and the automotive industry, which have been printed in more than 20 different language editions. His latest books are A Chicken Can’t Lay a Duck Egg (2020) and Globaler Klimanotstand (2020). He was an Advisory Board Member of the UN’s Pathways Project for four years, is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Population Matters, and a Research Affiliate of the Rachel Carson Center at Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich, Germany. He was previously Secretary General of the Club of Rome.
Latest Articles:
Another letter from my uncle, this time on the subject of war. “Peace is not some sort of paradise. It is not just coexistence by mutual agreement. Peace is not the absence of war. It is something humanity does not yet know.”
Climate change, a simple guide (2025)
Letter from an uncle. “There has been a great decline in people’s freedom and this change has made them much less happy.”
Enough. An Essay, inspired by one of the same name written by Ivan Turgenev in 1864
If societies cut emissions by 50% tomorrow what would happen? Would the pace of climate change slow or accelerate?
Why does a one or two degree change in global temperatures matter so much?
Climate change: what can you do?
Why carbon pricing doesn’t work
Natural Capital and how I tried to monetise my kisses
There is no such thing as net-zero