GLOBAL WARMING GRIDLOCK by David G. Victor ( 9780511975714 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

GLOBAL WARMING GRIDLOCK
CREATING MORE EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR PROTECTING THE PLANET

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Electronic book text

List price:	£162.00
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ISBN 10:

0511975716

ISBN 13:

9780511975714

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 June, 2012

Description:

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming. This book explains why and offers an alternative strategy.

Synopsis:

Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David G. Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warming more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking.

Illustrations:

15 b/w illus. 3 tables

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Returns:

Non-returnable

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