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Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0521865018, 9780521865012
LCC
TD885.5.G73 V53 2011
Google Books ID
pfuSar62i8wC
Open Library ID
OL10437660M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1970080 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
394\394
Topic
Biology Ecology
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 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.

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