The successor to "Blueprint for a Green Economy", this book covers those areas left out of the original government report doing so by making the issues global. It includes an economic approach to climate, ozone and biodiversity and the issue of a green foreign policy.

Following "Blueprint for a Green Economy" (the "Pearce Report") David Pearce and his team have turned their attention to global environmental threats. If it makes sense to apply economic analysis to national environmental problems, then it makes even more sense to apply it to world-wide dangers. The authors start by describing the reasons for using economic approaches to common resources like climate, ozone and biodiversity. They then take a detailed look at the economic ways to tackling the issues involved in global warming, ozone layer depletion, environmental degradation in the Third World, population, rain forests, aid, equity, international environmental co-operation and what might amount to green foreign policies. They show not only how to take all these things into account in economic theory, but also the economic price of failing to do so. "Blueprint 2" is an agenda for international and governmental economic action. David Pearce is co-author of "Blueprint for a Green Economy" amd "Sustainable Development".