Keywords:
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
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Climatic changes -- Government policy.
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Climatic changes -- International cooperation.
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Environmental economics.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
The volume brings together leading climate change policy experts to set out the economic analysis and the nature of the negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and beyond.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (563 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780191571497
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=737326
DDC:
363.73874
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- PART I. REVISITING THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE -- 2. Climate-change Policy: Why has so Little been Achieved? -- 3. The Global Deal on Climate Change -- 4. Climate Treaties and the Imperative of Enforcement -- 5. The Implications of Rapid Development for Emissions and Climate-change Mitigation -- 6. The Behavioural Economics of Climate Change -- PART II. THE GLOBAL PLAYERS AND AGREEMENTS -- 7. Climate Change and Africa -- 8. China's Balance of Emissions Embodied in Trade: Approaches to Measurement and Allocating International Responsibility -- 9. India and Climate-change Mitigation -- 10. Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive US Cap-and-trade System -- 11. EU Climate-change Policy-A Critique -- PART III. LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES -- 12. Nuclear Power, Climate Change, and Energy Policy -- 13. Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage -- 14. Climate-change Mitigation from Renewable Energy: Its Contribution and Cost -- 15. The National Inventory Approach for International Forest-carbon Sequestration Management -- 16. On the Regulation of Geoengineering -- 17. Improving Energy Efficiency: Hidden Costs and Unintended Consequences -- PART IV. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS -- 18. Carbon Taxes, Emissions Trading, and Hybrid Schemes -- 19. Docking into a Global Carbon Market: Clean Investment Budgets to Finance Low-carbon Economic Development -- 20. International Carbon Finance and the Clean Development Mechanism -- PART V. INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE -- 21. The Global Climate-change Regime: A Defence -- 22. Governing Climate Change: Lessons from other Governance Regimes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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