Saving Kyoto: An Insider's Guide to What it is, How it Works and What it Means for the Future - Tapa blanda

Chichilnisky, Graciela; Sheeran, Kristen A.

 
9781847734310: Saving Kyoto: An Insider's Guide to What it is, How it Works and What it Means for the Future
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ISBN 10: 1847734316 ISBN 13: 9781847734310
Editorial: New Holland Publishers Ltd, 2009

Sinopsis

Saving Kyoto focuses on international efforts to confront the crisis and provides a colourful overview of the history of global climate negotiations, explaining why international cooperation between poor and rich nations has become critical.

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Reseña del editor

For the first time in recorded history, humans are altering the planet in ways that endanger its basic life-support systems. Human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have changed the Earth's atmosphere, unleashing potentially catastrophic climate changes that threaten the survival of human civilization. "Saving Kyoto" focuses on international efforts to confront the crisis and provides a colorful overview of the history of global climate negotiations, explaining why international cooperation between poor and rich nations has become critical. The Kyoto Protocol is a historic agreement, the first of its kind to be based on the creation of a new market - a market based on trade in user rights to the global atmospheric commons. Detailing how the Kyoto Protocol originated, the debates and conflicts leading up to its signing in 1997, the main protagonists behind its creation and the current issues that threaten to undermine it, the book explains the importance of the carbon market - potentially the largest commodity market in the world - from an insider's perspective. After reading this book, readers will understand how the carbon market can help to close the global income divide while resolving the climate crisis. They will understand why we need to save Kyoto.

Biografía del autor

Graciela Chichilnisky has worked extensively in the Kyoto Protocol process, creating and designing the carbon market that became international law in 2005. Professor Chichilnisky acted as a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which received the 2007 Nobel Prize for its work in deciding world policy with respect to climate change. UNESCO Professor of Mathematics and Economics and Director of the Columbia Consortium for Risk Management at Columbia University, she is the author of some 200 scientific articles and 13 books, including Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency (Columbia University Press, 2000). Kristen A. Sheeran is Associate Professor of Economics at St Mary's College of Maryland and Interim Executive Director of Economics for Equity and the Environment. She has written many articles on environmental issues and has lectured on climate change.

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Editorial
New Holland Publishers Ltd
Año de publicación
2009
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1847734316
ISBN 13 
9781847734310
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
208
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