Crucial issues in climate change and the Kyoto Protocol [[electronic resource] ] : Asia and the world / / editors, Koh Kheng-Lian, Lye Lin- Heng , Jolene Lin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455615003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-75829-2; 9786612758294; 981-4277-53-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (597 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KohKheng Lian; LyeLin Heng; LinJolene
• Disciplina: 344.046342
• Soggetti: Climatic changes - Law and legislation; Greenhouse gases - Law and legislation; Environmental law, International; Greenhouse gases - Law and legislation - Asia; Climatic changes - Law and legislation - Asia; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Climate disruption : remaking the agenda of MEAs in Asia and the world / Nicholas A. Robinson -- Reframing global warming : toward a strategic national planning network / Scott Victor Valentine -- Climate change : living in the Anthropocene / Jeff Obbard -- An overview of the clean development mechanism in Southeast Asia / Jolene Lin -- CDM in China / Yang Xing and Wang Xi -- Empirical considerations in the development of CDM projects in Asia / William I.Y. Byun and Felix H.C. Chan -- Making markets work : a review of CDM performance and the need for reform / Charlotte Streck and Jolene Lin -- Regional framework : the European Union emissions trading scheme : past, present, and future / Kurt Deketelaere and Marijke Schurmans -- Trends in carbon trading : practical lessons / Andrew Beatty and Evan ; Williams -- Singapore's national climate change strategy / K. Suresh -- Japan : achieving its Kyoto target / Hiroji Isozaki -- Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol and its implications for the Asian region / Maria Socorro Manguiat -- Climate change as a threat to peace & security : glacial melting & human security in the Himalayas / Kishan Khoday -- The Kyoto Protocol and beyond : a South Asian perspective / Asanga Gunawansa -- Beyond Kyoto : climate change including a discussion of the AP6 initiative from the Australian perspective / Michael I. Jeffrey -- Protecting forests to mitigate global climate change / Charlotte Streck.
• Sommario/riassunto: <i>Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World</i> 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 - highly disparate in their cultures, socio-economic conditions and political systems - are responding to climate change,