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Global warming [electronic resource] : looking beyond Kyoto / Ernesto Zedillo, editor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Haven, Conn. : Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.Description: x, 237 p. : ill., mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.G56 G57442 2008
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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