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The Kyoto protocol : a guide and assessment / Michael Grubb with Christiaan Vrolijk and Duncan Brack ; additional contributions from Tim Forsyth, John Lanchbery, and Fanny Missfeldt.

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The Kyoto protocol : a guide and assessment / Michael Grubb with Christiaan Vrolijk and Duncan Brack ; additional contributions from Tim Forsyth, John Lanchbery, and Fanny Missfeldt.
Author
Grubb, Michael
Publication
London : Royal Institute of International Affairs, Energy and Environmental Programme ; Washington, DC : Distributed in North America by the Brookings Institution, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Vrolijk, Christiaan
  • Brack, Duncan
  • Energy and Environmental Programme (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
Description
xlii, 342 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
The Kyoto Protocol, agreed in December 1997, marks the beginning of a massive global process of economic and political change to limit greenhouse gas emissions and control climate change. This book looks at the terms and implications of the agreement.
Subject
  • Kioto / Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der Klimarahmenkonvention <1997>
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1997 December 11
  • Greenhouse gas mitigation > International cooperation
  • Global warming > Law and legislation
  • Environmental law, International
  • Climatic changes > International cooperation
  • Greenhouse gases > Law and legislation
  • Global warming
  • Global Warming
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. I. The making of the protocol: Analytic foundations: science, response options and the IPCC ; Political and legal foundations: national perspectives and the road to Kyoto ; Negotiating the Kyoto protocol ; The Kyoto protocol -- pt. II. Analysis of commitments, mechanisms and prospects: Environmental and economic implications of the Kyoto commitments ; Implementing international transfers under the Kyoto mechanisms ; The clean development mechanism ; Prospects for the Kyoto regime -- pt. III. Appendices.
ISBN
  • 1853835803 (pbk.)
  • 1853835811 (hardback)
OCLC
  • 48662437
  • SCSB-10177940
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