1st Edition
The Global Greenhouse Regime Who Pays?
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change are urgently required by the world community. However, international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It presents the scientific,... Read more
I: Measuring responsibility; 1: Introduction; 2: The basics of greenhouse gas indices; 3: Assessing emissions: five approaches compared; 4: Who pays (to solve the problem and how much)?; II: Resource transfers; 5: North-South carbon abatement costs; 6: North-South transfer; 7: Insuring against sea level rise; III: National greenhouse gas reduction cost curves; 8: Integrating ecology and economy in India; 9: Carbon abatement potential in West Africa; 10: Abatement of carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil; 11: Thailand's demand side management initiative: a practical response to global warming; 12: Carbon abatement in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States; 13: Greenhouse gas emission abatement in Australia; IV: Conclusion; 14: Constructing a global greenhouse regime
Biography
Kirk R. Smith
