Global Climate Change

SOMMARIO

Opening Remarks.- Opening Remarks.- Challenges in the Face of Uncertainty.- Challenges in the Face of Uncertainty.- A Sustainable Energy Future — Technological Options for Change.- Steps to Reduce U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Technical Options and the Policies to Implement Them.- Energy Efficiency, Human Activities and Climate Change.- The Costs of Reducing U.S. CO2 Emissions: Further Sensitivity Analyses.- Integrating Energy, Economy, and Environmental Concerns.- “No Regrets” Tax Reform.- Multiple benefit Environmental Policies.- Energy and Environmental Policy: The Role of Markets.- Local/Regional Policies—Acting Globally by Thinking Locally.- Implications for Decision Making.- Implications for Decision Making: Government Perspectives.- Implications for Decision Making: The Electric Utilities’ Perspective.- Implications for Decision Making: Auto Industry Perspectives.- Implications for Decision Making: Industrial Sector Perspectives.- Implications for Decision Making: Sectoral Perspectives.- The Importance of Population Growth in Future Commercial Energy Consumption.- The Public as a Decision Maker.- Strategies for International Negotiations.- Status of Framework Convention Talks.- Equity in International Agreements.- The Ethics of Living in a Global Greenhouse.- Corporate and Personal Responsibility.- Intergenerational Equity.- Examining the Linkages — Which Policies Will Work?.- Energy Policy: Insurance against the Unknown.- Designing a Carbon Tax Strategy.- “Virtual Climate” and Climate Change Assessment: Paving the Way for Workable Climate Change Policies.- Examining the Linkages—Which Policies Will Work?.- A Congressional View of Workable Linkages.- Thinking about Global Climate Change.- Thinking about Global Climate Change.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781441932297
• Collana: Environmental Science Research
• Dimensioni: 254 x 178 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XIII, 242 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 242
• Pagine Romane: xiii