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Climate change poses a multidimensional international challenge, one that eludes straightforward solutions. In Global Warming: Looking beyond Kyoto , some of the best-known and respected authorities in climate policy—including members of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—provide a comprehensive agenda for global collective action. Representing both industrialized and developing nations, the contributors present a thought-provoking examination of the economic, social, and political context of climate policy within their countries. There is a growing international consensus that the earth's climate is being changed by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Evidence presented by the IPCC and others points to the potential for increasingly dangerous weather, new disease outbreaks, regional water shortages, the loss of habitat and species, and other disturbing developments that could have profound social and economic impacts around the globe. Opinion on what should be done to address climate change, however, remains sharply divided within and among countries. Tension remains between wealthy nations and developing countries regarding the roles and r

Who reads Global Warming : Looking Beyond Kyoto?

Author

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León

Publisher

Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University ; Brookings Institution Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815797166

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Nature, Biology