Carbon finance : the financial implications of climate change / Sonia Labatt, Rodney R. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labatt, Sonia.

Contributor:

White, Rodney R.

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Wiley finance series

[Wiley finance]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emissions trading.

Greenhouse gases--Economic aspects.

Greenhouse gases.

Environmental economics.

Physical Description:

xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2007]

Summary:

The first book to examine the relationship between climate change and carbon finance

Carbon Finance helps readers understand the metrics of carbon cycle change and discusses risk transfer measures, the Kyoto Protocol, and the role carbon finance plays in corporate climate risk analysis.

Sonia Labatt (Toronto, ON, Canada) is an associate faculty member at the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto. Rodney R. White (Toronto, ON, Canada) is former director of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IES) at the University of Toronto.

Contents:

Foreword

About the authors

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms

Introduction

The energy chain

Regulated and energy-intensive sectors

The physical impacts of climate change on the evolution of carbon finance

Institutional investors and climate change

Emissions trading in theory and practice

Climate change and environmental security: individuals, communities, nations

Adapting to adverse and severe weather

Key players in the carbon markets / by Martin Whittaker

Carbon finance: present status and future prospects

Endnotes

Web sites

References

Index.

Notes:

Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9780471794677

0471794678

OCLC:

72655594