Climate change policy failures why conventional mitigation approaches cannot succeed /
At the recent UN Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban, the developed nations promised hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid to help developing countries overcome global climate change dangers. The developed nations will need to spend many more billions to limit thei...
| Основен автор: | Latin, Howard A. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Singapore ; London :
World Scientific,
2011.
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Съдържание:
- Ch. I. Introduction: challenging the consensus
- ch. II. "Reducing the increases" in the atmospheric GHG concentration. Persistent GHG discharges. Natural and human-made "sinks". Reducing the growth rate of GHGs in the atmosphere. The two degrees celsius non-solution
- ch. III. Economic incentive programs. Cap-and-trade systems. Carbon offset programs. Carbon taxes, fees, or charges
- ch. IV. The stalemate in international negotiations. Arguments supporting the South's positions. Arguments supporting the North's positions. The Durban platform for enhanced action. Identifying a potential solution
- ch. V. Overlapping institutional responsibilities. Adopting initial or interim mitigation measures. The Clean Technology Commission and Development Fund. A progressively increasing carbon tax. "Technology-based" regulations in high-pollution sectors. Mandatory GHG-pollution disclosure programs
- ch. VI. Conclusion.