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Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
Oliver Tickell
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Description for Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
Paperback. The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. This book puts forward a solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded by organisations on a global auction, it seeks to succeed where the original agreement failed. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316. Very good copy with light shelf wear
The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. We urgently need a new course of action. In Kyoto2 the author presents us with a strikingly original new solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded by organisations on a global auction, Kyoto2 seeks to succeed where the original agreement failed. Regulated by an independent body, the funds could be poured back into healing the wounds inflicted by climate change. In his combination of idealism with realistic proposals, Tickell exposes ... Read more
The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. We urgently need a new course of action. In Kyoto2 the author presents us with a strikingly original new solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded by organisations on a global auction, Kyoto2 seeks to succeed where the original agreement failed. Regulated by an independent body, the funds could be poured back into healing the wounds inflicted by climate change. In his combination of idealism with realistic proposals, Tickell exposes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848130258
SKU
KCW0012583
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Oliver Tickell
Oliver Tickell is a freelance environment journalist, one-time environment correspondent at The Independent, and a regular columnist in Resurgence magazine where he writes about 'Sensible Solutions' to the world's problems.
Reviews for Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
'The most intelligent treatment of the politics and economics of climate change I have ever read. Brilliant, clear and unanswerable’ George Monbiot 'Elegantly simple and eminently workable, this is a proposal that could change the world. Kyoto2 should be read by anyone with an interest in climate change policy' Mark Lynas 'A fresh, accessible, cogent and bold ... Read more