Climate Protection and Development

Informationen zum Autor Frank Ackerman is Director of the Climate Economics Group of the US Center of the Stockholm Environmental Institute, and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute based at Tufts University, USA. Richard Kozul-Wright is Chief of the Unit on Economic Cooperation and Integration among Developing Countries of UNCTAD, Geneva, and former Chief of the Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD), Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/DESA).Rob Vos is Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD), Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/DESA), and Affiliated Professor of Finance and Development, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Klappentext This book spells out what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It is not a story of complacent congratulation for "win-win" initiatives and "green" consumer choices. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty-first century. Vorwort The central claim of this book is that climate and development crises will be solved together, or not at all. The faster we begin, the more possible the solutions will be. Zusammenfassung This book spells out what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It is not a story of complacent congratulation for "win-win" initiatives and "green" consumer choices. It summons us to an endeavour worthy of the resources and ingenuity of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgementsAbout the EditorsAbout Other Contributors Preface Climate Change and the Development ChallengeClimate Mitigation and the Energy Challenge The Adaptation Challenge A State of Change: Climate and Development PolicyTechnology Transfer for Climate Protection Financing the Development Response to Climate Change ReferencesIndex

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• Authors: Frank Ackerman, Frank (Tufts University Ackerman, Frank Kozul-Wright Ackerman, Richard Kozul-Wright, Rob Vos
• Assisted by: Frank Ackerman (Editor), Frank (the Director Ackerman (Editor), Frank (Tufts University Ackerman (Editor), Richard Kozul-Wright (Editor), Professor Rob (Director ESW) Vos (Editor), Rob Vos (Editor), Rob (Institute of Social Studies Vos (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2012
• EAN: 9781780931739
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-173-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: United Nations Series on Devel; The United Nations Series on Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education