Economics and Management of Climate Change: Risks, Mitigation and AdaptationBernd Hansjürgens, Ralf Antes Springer Science & Business Media, 2008 M07 1 - 304 pages Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is already occurring, there is neither sufficient knowledge as to what extent climate change poses risks to societies and companies, nor about adequate strategies to cope with these risks. Bringing together an international group of scholars from environmental economics, political science and business, this book describes, analyses and evaluates climate change risks and responses of societies and companies. The book contributes to the question of how climate change can be mitigated by discussing efficient and effective design of mitigation measures, in particular emissions trading and clean development mechanism (CDM). Placing special emphasis on the impact of climate change risks on business, the book investigates in which way selected sectors of the economy are affected and what measures they can undertake to adapt to climate change risks. |
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... greenhouse gas concentrations. It is likely that there has been significant an- thropogenic warming over the last 50 years averaged over each continent. - Anthropogenic warming over the last three decades has likely had a discern- able ...
... green- house gases which was in the centre of climate change strategies. This perspective strongly influenced the ... greenhouse gas emissions had already been acknowledged at the United Nations World Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 ...
... greenhouse gases. Therefore these instruments will be analysed in Part II of this book. As the instruments have been analysed in general, the contributions in this book focus on specific design options, and thus complement existing ...
... greenhouse gas emis- sions will take a long time – even if an international agreement would be reached in the near future. Historic emissions of the industrialised countries are responsible for the fact that climate change is already ...
... Greenhouse Gases. Washington, DC, PEW Center on Global Climate Change European Union (2003) Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13. October 2003 establishing a system for greenhouse gas emissions trad ...
Contents
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Evaluation of risk in costbenefit analysis of climate change 23 Ingrid Nestle | 37 |
Effects of low water levels on the river Rhine on the inland | 53 |
a layered management | 78 |
implications for the economic uncertainties | 97 |
how | 124 |
realizing | 145 |
Risk management in the Clean Development Mechanism CDM | 193 |
Economic and social risks associated with implementing | 208 |
Developments in corporate responses to climate change | 221 |
Modelling impacts of climate change policy uncertainty | 242 |
Reputational impact of businesses compliance strategies | 257 |
climate change risk | 271 |
Business risks and opportunities from climate change | 293 |
Sustainable development the Clean Development Mechanism | 175 |
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