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Global Warming : Looking Beyond Kyoto

  • Global Warming : Looking Beyond Kyoto

  • Attribution

    Ernesto Zedillo, editor

  • Publication Details

    Book, Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University, 2008

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QC981.8.G56 G57442 2008  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    Climate change poses a multidimensional international challenge, one that eludes straightforward solutions. In Global Warming: Looking beyond Kyoto, some of the best-known and respected authorities in climate policy?including members of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?provide a comprehensive agenda for global collective action. Pachauri (Energy Resources Institute and the IPCC), Jyoti Parikh (Integrated Research and Action for Development, New Delhi), Sonja Peterson (Kiel Institute for World Economics), Stefan Rahmstorf (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Stephen H. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Notes

    • "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

    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction /Ernest Zedillo
    • |gpt. 1.Climate change detection and scenarios : reexamining the evidence
    • |g1.The IPCC : establishing the evidence /R.K. Pachauri
    • |g2.Is the global warming alarm founded on fact? /Richard S. Lindzen
    • |g3.Anthropogenic climate change : revisiting the facts /Stefan Rahmstorf
    • |gpt. 2.Measuring our vulnerabilities to climate change
    • |g4."Dangerous" climate change : key vulnerabilities /Stephen H. Schneider
    • |g5.The policy implications of climate change impacts /Robert Mendelsohn
    • |gpt. 3.The Kyoto Protocol : consequences and opportunities for transformation
    • |g6.Economic analyses of the Kyoto Protocol : is there life after Kyoto? /William D. Nordhaus
    • |g7.The European emissions trading regime and the future of Kyoto /Gernot Klepper and Sonja Peterson - -|gpt. 4.Alternative climate policy options
    • |g8. Climate change : designing an effective response / Thomas Heller
    • |g9.An international policy architecture for the post-Kyoto era /Robert N. Stavins - -

  • ISBN

    • 081579715x
    • 9780815797159
    • 0815797141
    • 9780815797142
    • 081579715x

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