Explores the utility of litigation as an alternative to conventional measures in the battle against climate change, acknowledges the difficulties that attempting to impose liability can pose, and assesses solutions to meet these challenges. Also see Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice edited by Richard Lord et al (Cambridge UP, Jan 2012).

(CLIMATE CHANGE LIABILITY)

The EU has emerged as the leader in the international struggle to govern climate change. Discusses EU challenges of mitigation and adaptation, the unique way that the EU governs, and explores the its ability to maintain its leading position in climate change politics. Identifies key governance choices that informed the design of EU climate policies, reveals how governors grapple with complex choices and dilemmas in a fast moving and strategically important policy area, and uses policy analysis to explore how policy could unfold in the future, and the governance dilemmas this may provoke. Topics include distributing burdens and sharing efforts, emissions trading, renewable energies, emerging EU policy, the role of scenarios, and future challenges.

(CLIMATE CHANGE * EUROPEAN UNION: CLIMATE POLICY)

The polar regions have experienced some remarkable environmental changes in recent decades, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, the loss of large amounts of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean, and major warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. The polar regions are predicted to warm more than any other region on Earth over the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise. Yet trying to separate natural climate variability from anthropogenic factors still presents many problems. Presents a thorough review of how the polar climates have changed over the last million years and sets recent changes within a long term perspective. Stresses the close links between the atmosphere, the ocean, and ice at high latitudes. Concludes with predictions for the next 100 years.

(CLIMATE CHANGE * POLAR REGIONS AND CLIMATE)

Controlling the level of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is a rapidly growing area of commercial activity. While debate continues about the impact of greenhouse gas on climate and the role humans play in influencing its concentration, engineers are faced with less controversial questions of how to manage this uncertainty and how to control greenhouse gases at a minimum cost to society. Overviews current knowledge required for engineers to develop strategies that help us manage and adapt to climate change.

(CLIMATE CHANGE * ENGINEERING AND CLIMATE CHANGE * GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION)

Analyzes the role of economics in confronting global warming and explains how economics can (and cannot) help in crafting climate policy. The book is organized around three central questions: 1) Can cost-benefit analysis guide us in setting warming targets? 2) What strategies and policies are cost-effective? 3) Most difficult, can a global agreement be forged between rich and poor, North and South? While economic concepts are foremost in the analysis, they are placed within an accessible ethical and political matrix. Chapters of this primer for the post-Kyoto era overview the role of cost-benefit in climate policy, discounting and social weighting (aggregating over time and space), empirical results, strategic responses, targets and tools, trade and global warming, the challenge of international cooperation, and global warming challenges beyond Kyoto.

(CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS)

Focuses on the problem of anthropogenic climate change; combines an introduction of the science with an introduction to the non-science issues such as the economic and policy options; contains the quantitative depth that is necessary for an adequate understanding of the science of climate change. Chapters focus on introducing the climate problem; climate change; radiation and energy balance; a simple climate model; the carbon cycle; forcing, feedbacks, and climate sensitivity; explaining climate change; the future of our climate; impacts; exponential growth; fundamentals of climate change policy; mitigation policies; climate change politics; and a long-term policy to address climate change.

(CLIMATE CHANGE TEXTBOOK)

Most of the warming due to anthropogenic climate change (84%) has been transferred to oceans, causing ocean temperature change, coral bleaching events, and ocean acidification. Climate change is becoming more evident and, as it increases, will alter productivity of fisheries and distribution of fish stocks. Outlines the actions that fisheries policy makers must undertake in the face of climate change: strengthening the global governance system; broader use of rights-based management systems; ecosystem protection; industry transformation by ending environmentally harmful subsidies; focusing on raising demand for sustainably caught seafood; and, in particular, using aquaculture as a key part of the response to climate change. Case studies feature the UK, Korea, and Chinese Taipei.

(FISHERIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE * FOOD/AGRICULTURE * CLIMATE CHANGE)

On one day in 2009, in 38 countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens gathered to discuss the future of climate policy. ‘WWViews’ was the first-ever global democratic deliberation - an attempt to enable ordinary people to reach informed decisions on and impact the global policy process. Provides practical lessons on how to increase the impact of global deliberation projects within the media and on official policy processes. Explores important themes for participatory approaches from the local to the global: 1) the role of deliberation within global governance; 2) methodology and practice; 3) participant selection; 4) policy impacts; 5) engaging the media; 6) how policy culture affects deliberation uptake; 7) capacity building and knowledge transfer; 8) process evaluation; 9) content and argumentation analysis; and10) gender, race and class aspects.

(CLIMATE CHANGE * GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE)

Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve local urban environment. Such taxes could be a fundamental part of any climate action plan. Challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. While there may be some slight regressivity in some high-income countries, as a general rule fuel taxation is a progressive policy, particularly in low income countries. Rich countries can correct for regressivity by cutting back on other taxes that adversely affect poor people, or by spending more money on services for the poor. In low-income countries, poor people spend a very small share of their money on fuel for transport.

(FUEL TAXATION IMPACTS * CLIMATE CHANGE)

The oil shock, the credit crunch, and the near-collapse of global climate negotiations demand a radical rethink of current policies. Presents a path to tackling climate change that can also enhance international and energy security, and help global financial and political adjustment to the rise of the emerging economies. As carbon becomes an increasingly limited and valuable global resource, it can also serve as an anchor point for adjusting global financial imbalances. Low carbon economies can have a long-run competitive advantage because of their higher efficiency and reduced exposure to oil instability. The key to making this transition lies in the integrated use of innovation policy, carbon pricing, and consumer empowerment. A coalition of countries that spearhead this agenda will benefit most from it, and ultimately make it impossible for any country to stand aside.

(CARBON PRICING * CLIMATE CHANGE * LOW-CARBON ECONOMIES)