Regional Costs and Benefits of Alternative Post-Kyoto Climate Regimes
Author: D. P. van Vuuren
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13:
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Climate 2050
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Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 928931690X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis literature review aims to provide a brief overview of the studies undertaken regarding large-scale emission reductions in the long term. The purpose of the review is to provide an indication the consequences of ambitious emission reduction targets as suggested by other studies and to help identify relevant assumptions, parameters etc. needed for scenarios analyses of this study. The literature review has been to focus attention with regard to the baseline emission scenario, i.e. the likely course of events in the absence of ambitious emission reduction targets and the corresponding policies and measures necessary to achieve the targets and to the reduction scenario in which policy action is undertaken to reduce emissions.
Post-Kyoto Climate Governance
Author: Asim Zia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-11
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1135078270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Even if we arrive at a Hubbert’s peak for oil extraction in the 21st century, the availability of technologically recoverable coal and natural gas will mean that fossil fuels continue to be burned for many years to come, and our civilization will have to deal with the consequences far into the future. Climate change will not discriminate between rich and poor nations, and yet the UN-driven process of negotiating a global climate governance regime has hit serious roadblocks. This book takes a trans-disciplinary perspective to identify the causes of failure in developing an international climate policy regime and lays out a roadmap for developing a post-Kyoto (post-2012) climate governance regime in the light of lessons learned from the Kyoto phase. Three critical policy analytical lenses are used to evaluate the inherent complexity of designing post-Kyoto climate policy: the politics of scale; the politics of ideology; and the politics of knowledge. The politics of scale lens focuses on the theme of temporal and spatial discounting observed in human societies and how it impacts the allocation of environmental commons and natural resources across space and time. The politics of ideology lens focuses on the themes of risk and uncertainty perception in complex, pluralistic human societies. The politics of knowledge lens focuses on the themes of knowledge and power dynamics in terms of governance and policy designs, such as marketization of climate governance observed in the Kyoto institutional regime.
The Benefits and Costs of the Kyoto Protocol
Author: Jason F. Shogren
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780844771342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the driving elements behind the benefits and costs of climate protection via Kyoto or similar international agreements that follow.
The Geopolitical Impact of Climate Mitigation Policies
Author: Sijbren de Jong
Publisher: The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9492102552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the Paris Climate Conference held in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the Paris Agreement – the first universal, legally binding global climate deal. The signatory parties committed themselves to a global action plan that aims to keep global warming to well below 2°C and to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C. As part of our Geo-Economics research initiative, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies has investigated the geopolitical consequences of climate mitigation and energy transition among a number of countries richly endowed in hydrocarbons who potentially stand to lose a significant part of their revenue stream as a result of demand changes for fossil fuels. If demand for oil and gas demand were to decrease as a result of successful climate mitigation policies, the financial and social stability of these countries will – ceteris paribus – be negatively affected, especially if they fail to reform their domestic economies. The presented study, entitled The Geopolitical Impact of Climate Mitigation Policies, employs a number of innovative investigative methods and analytical approaches to generate insights regarding sociopolitical stability in the wake of the world’s transition to renewable energy systems in a number of major oil- and gas-exporting nations near Europe. On top of this, the report looks closely at the energy situation in Sub-Saharan Africa and analyzes in detail which choices developing nations face with respect to their future energy mix. Given the deep, and complex relationship between the global energy sector and international politics, these findings have numerous implications – both short and long term – for our future efforts to combat climate change while simultaneously fending off any consequential drivers of sociopolitical instability.
OECD Green Growth Studies Energy
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-01-16
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9264115110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report looks at the role of the energy sector in moving towards a green growth model and the policies to facilitate the transition.
Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
Author: Kheng Lian Koh
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9814277533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World focuses on responses to climate change in the world''s most populous region. This book provides the most comprehensive insight to the climate change discourse within Asia to date by drawing on the diverse disciplines and experience of legal practitioners, climate change consultants, government officials and academics. Individual chapters address issues such as how the various Asian countries OCo highly disparate in their cultures, socio-economic conditions and political systems OCo are responding to climate change, the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change, and the effective implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Asia. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (37 KB). Chapter 1: Climate Disruption: Remaking the Agenda of Meas in Asia and the World (138 KB). Contents: Setting the Stage: Climate Disruption: Remaking the Agenda of MEAs in Asia and the World (N A Robinson); Reframing Global Warming: Toward a Strategic National Planning Framework (S V Valentine); Climate Change OCo Living in the Anthropocene (J Obbard); Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): An Overview of the Clean Development Mechanism in Southeast Asia (J Lin); CDM in China (X Yang & X Wang); Empirial Considerations in the Development of CDM Projects in Asia (W I Y Byun & F H C Chan); Making Markets Work OCo A Review of CDM Performance and the Need for Reform (C Streck & J Lin); Emissions Trading in the European Union and Asia: Regional Framework: The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme OCo Past, Present and Future (K Deketelaere & M Schurmans); Trends in Carbon Trading: Practical Lessons (A Beatty & E Williams); Effective Implementation of the Kyoto in Asia: Singapore''s National Climate Change Strategy (K Suresh); Japan: Achieving Its Kyoto Target (H Isozaki); Compliance Under the Kyoto Protocol and Its Implications for the Asian Region (M S Manguiat); Climate Change as a Threat to Peace & Security: Glacial Melting & Human Security in the Himalayas (K Khoday); The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: A South Asian Perspective (A Gunawansa); Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change Including a Discussion of the AP6 Initiative from the Australian Perspective (M I Jeffery); Protecting Forests to Mitigate Global Climate Change (C streck). Readership: Environmental lawyers, policy makers, practitioners in CDM, tertiary students in environmental sciences.
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Author: Wolfgang P. Cramer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-02-02
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0521864712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, first published in 2006, presents findings on climate change from leading international scientists, for researchers, policy-makers and engineers.
Estimation of Costs and Impacts for Various Options of Post-Kyoto Climate Regimes
Author: Yŏ-ra Chʻae
Publisher:
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9788984642720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is Next After the Kyoto Protocol?
Author: Niklas Höhne
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNegotiations on climate change are entering a new phase now that the discussions after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol have started. This book gives a comprehensive survey of present issues and proposals, as well as an overview of future options, in a quantitative and qualitative manner. These options are followed by an assessment, plus fresh proposals for a future international climate regime after 2012. What is Next after the Kyoto Protocol? provides an ideal reference to understand the current status of the climate negotiations. The book is timely and leaves the reader well-informed. It prepares and updates the reader to take part in the climate change discussions or to assess these, based on academic findings and analysis. The book can be read both in-depth as well as with a bird's eye view, since it is well-structured and includes a summary and introduction.
