Ross Garnaut

The Garnaut Climate Change Review

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Produktbeschreibung

The Garnaut Climate Change Review is one of the most important reports to be published in Australia for many years and examines the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy, the costs of adaptation and mitigation, and the international context in which climate change is experienced and negotiated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 682
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9780521744447
• ISBN-10: 052174444X
• Artikelnr.: 25517743

Autorenporträt

Ross Garnaut is emeritus professor of economics at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, and director of both the Superpower Institute and ZEN Energy. In 2008, he produced the Garnaut Climate Change Review for the Australian government. He is the author or editor of many books, including the bestselling Dog Days, Superpower, Reset and The Superpower Transformation.

Inhaltsangabe

Summary of conclusions
Introduction
1. Decision making framework
2. The science of climate change
3. Emissions in the platinum age
4. Projecting global climate change. 5. The Australian context to climate change
6. Impacts of climate change on Australia
7. Australia's emissions and the economy
8. Counting the costs
9. International response
10. Towards global agreement
11. Deepening international collaboration. 12. Targets and trajectories
13. Australian climate change policy overview
14. Emissions trading
15. Domestic adaptation policy
16. Research, development and innovation
17. Network infrastructure
18. Information
19. Income distribution
20. The energy transformation
21. The transport transformation
22. Agriculture and forestry transformation
23. Growth and structural change in the low-emissions economy
24. A fateful choice.