1st Edition

Exploring Climate Change Related Systems and Scenarios Preconditions for Effective Global Responses

By Jeremy Winston Webb Copyright 2024
320 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts. The book starts with a summary of the climate change problem and develops a Climate Change, National Interests, International Cooperation (CCNIIC) model of the climate response system. Webb reviews ‘reverse stress testing’, ‘backcasting’,... Read more

Part One: Introduction and background to climate responses  1. Introduction to the climate response problem  2. Climate change issues and options  3. Climate actors, institutions, and response system  4. Scenario methods and overarching themes  Part Two: Exploring 175 global response scenarios  5. Climate impact, risk, and response scenarios  6. Actors and interests in climate scenarios  7. Climate change response options and scenarios  8. International climate cooperation scenarios  9. Other unusual climate related scenarios  Part Three: Lessons learnt 10. Analysing climate signals, actors, and responses  11. Effective global responses to climate change  12. How to limit climate change and its impact  Part Four: Epilogue  13. Lessons for other global response problems  References  List of acronyms  Glossary  Appendices

Biography

Jeremy Webb has a background in geology, development studies, and a doctorate in Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy from University College London, UK. He has worked as an international expert in environment statistics, environmental economic accounting, natural resource classification, water statistics, climate change and development, as well as minerals and development. This includes 10 years with the United Nations in New York and Addis Ababa, and another 6 years leading working groups under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.