Product Description: The oil shock, the credit crunch and the near-collapse of global climate negotiations demand a radical rethink of current policies. Michael Grubb and his co-authors present a path to tackling climate change that can also enhance international and energy security, and help global financial and political adjustment to the rise of the emerging economies...read more

Product Description: Chichilnisky's first-hand accounts of the rivalries and intrigues that always attend international summiteering are fascinating, as is the rest of the book. - Geographical magazine Publishing in August 2009 in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen on 7-18 December 2009, where the future of the Kyoto Protocol will be decided A fantastic reference material for anyone interested in saving the planet as well as students of environmental studies, climate change, politics and international political economics For the first time in recorded history, humans are altering the planet in ways that endanger its basic life-support systems...read more

Product Description: A Framework Convention on Climate Change signed at Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 contains a commitment by participating countries to work toward reductions in their emissions of greenhouse gases. World attention will now focus on how this abatement should be carried out...read more