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Global warming : looking beyond Kyoto / Ernesto Zedillo, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Climatic changes--Government policy.
- Climatic changes.
- Global warming.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Comprehensive examination of the economic, social, and political context of climate policy in industrialized and developing nations. Calls for a multilateral approach that goes beyond the mitigation-focused Kyoto policies and stresses the importance of generating policies that work within a time frame commensurate with that of climate change itself"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Ernest Zedillo
- The IPCC : establishing the evidence / R.K. Pachauri
- Is the global warming alarm founded on fact? / Richard S. Lindzen
- Anthropogenic climate change : revisiting the facts / Stefan Rahmstorf
- "Dangerous" climate change : key vulnerabilities / Stephen H. Schneider
- The policy implications of climate change impacts / Robert Mendelsohn
- Economic analyses of the Kyoto Protocol : is there life after Kyoto? / William D. Nordhaus
- The European emissions trading regime and the future of Kyoto / Gernot Klepper and Sonja Peterson
- Climate change : designing an effective response / Thomas Heller
- An international policy architecture for the post-Kyoto era / Robert N. Stavins
- Controversies of Russian climate policy and opportunities for greenhouse gas reduction / Alexander Golub
- Climate policy in the United Kingdom / Howard Dalton
- Canada's approach to tackling climate change / John M.R. Stone
- India and climate change : mitigation, adaptation, and a way forward / Jvoti Parikh
- Correct choices for China : energy conservation, a cyclic economy, and a conservation-minded society / Shen Longhai.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815797166
- 0815797168
- OCLC:
- 818846699
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