Crucial issues in climate change and the Kyoto Protocol : Asia and the world / editors, Koh Kheng-Lian, Lye Lin- Heng , Jolene Lin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koh, Kheng Lian.

Lye, Lin Heng.

Lin, Jolene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Climatic changes.

Greenhouse gases--Law and legislation.

Greenhouse gases.

Environmental law, International.

Greenhouse gases--Law and legislation--Asia.

Climatic changes--Law and legislation--Asia.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992 May 9)--Protocols, etc. (1997 December 11).

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (597 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<i>Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World</i> focuses on responses to climate change in the world's most populous region. This book provides the most comprehensive insight to the climate change discourse within Asia to date by drawing on the diverse disciplines and experience of legal practitioners, climate change consultants, government officials and academics. Individual chapters address issues such as how the various Asian countries - highly disparate in their cultures, socio-economic conditions and political systems - are responding to climate change,

Contents:

Climate disruption : remaking the agenda of MEAs in Asia and the world / Nicholas A. Robinson

Reframing global warming : toward a strategic national planning network / Scott Victor Valentine

Climate change : living in the Anthropocene / Jeff Obbard

An overview of the clean development mechanism in Southeast Asia / Jolene Lin

CDM in China / Yang Xing and Wang Xi

Empirical considerations in the development of CDM projects in Asia / William I.Y. Byun and Felix H.C. Chan

Making markets work : a review of CDM performance and the need for reform / Charlotte Streck and Jolene Lin

Regional framework : the European Union emissions trading scheme : past, present, and future / Kurt Deketelaere and Marijke Schurmans

Trends in carbon trading : practical lessons / Andrew Beatty and Evan Williams

Singapore's national climate change strategy / K. Suresh

Japan : achieving its Kyoto target / Hiroji Isozaki

Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol and its implications for the Asian region / Maria Socorro Manguiat

Climate change as a threat to peace & security : glacial melting & human security in the Himalayas / Kishan Khoday

The Kyoto Protocol and beyond : a South Asian perspective / Asanga Gunawansa

Beyond Kyoto : climate change including a discussion of the AP6 initiative from the Australian perspective / Michael I. Jeffrey

Protecting forests to mitigate global climate change / Charlotte Streck.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612758294

9781282758292

1282758292

9789814277532

9814277533

OCLC:

613343377