Present scientific understanding of the problem is outlined, as are the uncertainties and the potential impacts of global warming. The technical and political scope of measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions are then examined, in relation to the industrialized market economies, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the developing world. This leads, in the concluding section, to a discussion of the major hurdles and structural constraints involved in any global strategy to limit climatic change. A postscript analyzes recent progress towards an international agreement to limit global warming (up to and including the 2nd World Climate Conference in November 1990) and discusses the key international policy issues for the early 1990s.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 138 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-0-85496-759-9 (9780854967599)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The greenhouse effect and its potential impact; scientific description of the greenhouse effect; scientific uncertainty - problems of prediction; potential regional impacts; limiting greenhouse gas emissions; overview; reducing CO2 emissions in the industrialized market economies; energy efficiency; changing the fuel mix in electricity generation; CO2 removal; the transport sector; forestry; reducing CO2 emissions from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; controlling CO2 emissions from developing countries; an energy policy to minimize CO2 emissions; saving the forests; CFCs and CFC substitutes; controlling methane emissions; the prospects of effective action to prevent major climate change.
