Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Global Business AspectsSpringer Science & Business Media, 2011 M06 28 - 375 pages The world is getting hotter as it experiences the extremes of global climate change. In 1999, catastrophic storms hit Honduras, China and East India, bringing severe devas tation to lives and national economies. EI Nino swept across the Pacific in early 2000, inflicting the worst floods on Mozambique and neighbouring countries. Industrialised nations are not immune to global warming - cases of encephalitis, a disease trans mitted by mosquitoes, were reported in the State of New York. In Antarctica, an iceberg seven times the size of Manhattan island broke loose and floated towards Cape Horn. The melting of Arctic glaciers also continues - huge volumes of fresh-water will disrupt the warm conveyor-belt from Central America to Europe. The net effect of convergent glacial drifts from the polar regions to the equator is expected to inten sify cloud formation in the tropics - hence exacerbating global warming. As the destructive forces of nature intensify, so does the rhetoric from environmental organ isations - as evidenced by the disruption of the last World Trade Organisation con ference in Seattle. It is now up to civilisation to challenge climate change. It can achieve this by command and control as well as flexible mechanisms at home and abroad, before the process of global warming becomes totally irreversible. |
Contents
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Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide 21 | 46 |
Clean Development Mechanism Project Prospects | 50 |
CO Reduction Technologies and Financial Analysis | 140 |
Emissions Trading 181 | 182 |
Conclusions | 238 |
A2 United Nations and Multilateral Environmental Organisations | 263 |
Model Questionnaire to Enterprises in Developing Countries | 286 |
Technical Example II for Pricing CO2 Emissions Reductions | 295 |
A8 Cost Data Indicative Costs of Key Equipment for Thermal | 303 |
Role of the Conference of the Parties Governments | 320 |
Case of Governments Which Have Not or May Not Sign | 326 |
Countries Listed in Annex I to the Convention Compared to Countries | 327 |
How Annex I Countries Can Move Ahead with the CDM | 334 |
Units Definitions and Conversion Factors | 357 |
A4 The Green 500 Project A National Green Index to Rank Firms | 273 |
A5 Carbon Accounting and Carbon Taxes | 279 |
Country Place Index | 373 |
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