Dealing with Climate Change: setting a global agenda for mitigation and adaptation
Editor(s): R K Pachauri
Year: 2010
300 pages;(Hard bound)
Language: English
ISBN: 9788179932773
Cover price:Rs.695.00 / US $28.00
Description
Climate change is the most important existential threat that humanity faces at the moment. There is an urgent need for a framework for international cooperation, research and development, technology, finance, market mechanisms, as well as consensus on the role of business in addressing the issue. This book presents authoritative contributions from international experts, laying out the issues, the options, and the prospects of mitigation and adaptation
Key Features
- Contributions from leading experts in the field
- Articles well researched and analytical
- Authoritative and up-to-date data
- Scientific data supported by graphs, figures, and tables
- Offers a global and historical perspective on the issue of climate change
Table of contents
Foreword
Nitin Desai
The scientifi c assessment of climate change: new findings
R K Pachauri
Carbon Budget Proposal
Jiahua Pan and Ying Chen
Challenges in climate change adaptation
Jessica Ayers and Saleemul Huq
Research and Development priorities for addressing climate change (mitigation and adaptation)
Thomas J Wilbanks
Climate change: a problem or an opportunity
Bjorn Stigson
The last decade—convergence of environmental and financial markets: a practitioner’s View
Richard L Sandor
The global climate change regime: a time for consolidation or fundamental reform?
Farhana Yamin and Joanna Depledge
Climate change debate: the story from India
Prodipto Ghosh
Emission reduction targets: a Pandora’s Box in climate negotiations
Leena Srivastava and Neha Pahuja
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