Climate change policy failures : why conventional mitigation approaches cannot succeed / / Howard A. Latin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807501103321
• Autore: Latin Howard A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hackensack, NJ ; ; Singapore, : World Scientific, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-59368-8; 9786613906137; 981-4355-65-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.738/74561
• Soggetti: Climatic changes - Economic aspects; Climatic changes - Government policy; Greenhouse gases; Climate change mitigation
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter I Introduction: Challenging the Consensus; Chapter II "Reducing the Increases" in the Atmospheric GHG Concentration; Persistent GHG Discharges; Natural and Human-Made "Sinks"; Reducing the Growth Rate of GHGs in the Atmosphere; The Two Degrees Celsius Non-Solution; Chapter III Economic Incentive Programs; Cap-and-Trade Systems; Carbon Offset Programs; Voluntary Offset Programs; Offsets as Part of National Emissions-Reduction Programs; International Offsets and the Clean Development Mechanism; Carbon Taxes, Fees, or Charges; Chapter IV The Stalemate in International NegotiationsArguments Supporting the South's Positions; Arguments Supporting the North's Positions; The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action; Identifying a Potential Solution; Chapter V Overlapping Institutional Responsibilities; Adopting Initial or Interim Mitigation Measures; The Clean Technology Commission and Development Fund; A Progressively Increasing Carbon Tax; "Technology-Based" Regulations in High-Pollution Sectors; Mandatory GHG-Pollution Disclosure Programs; Chapter VI Conclusion; Endnotes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At the recent UN Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban, the developed nations promised hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid to help developing countries overcome global climate change dangers. The developed nations will need to spend many more billions to limit their own greenhouse gas pollution, the main cause of global warming and climate change. Will all this money and effort be wasted? This book argues that nearly all of the world's climate policy makers and expert advisors have been making tragic mistakes that ensure the failures of climate change mitigat