The Garnaut Climate Change Review

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-74444-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 680 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g

Professor Ross Garnaut was commissioned by all of the Governments of Australia's Federation to examine the impacts of climate change on Australia and to recommend policy frameworks to improve the prospects of sustainable prosperity. The Garnaut Climate Change Review is one of the most important reports to be published in Australia for many years. It examines the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy, the costs of adaptation and mitigation, and the international context in which climate change is experienced and negotiated. It analyses the elements of an appropriate international policy response, and the challenges that face Australia in playing its proportionate part in that response. The Garnaut Climate Change Review is highly relevant to the global problem that is climate change. It considers what policies the international community should adopt in responding to climate change, and urges humanity to act now, and in concert, to develop the required policy response in time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garnaut, Ross

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Aeronomie, Ionosphäre, Magnetosphäre
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Summary of conclusions; Introduction; 1. Decision making framework; 2. The science of climate change; 3. Emissions in the platinum age; 4. Projecting global climate change. 5. The Australian context to climate change; 6. Impacts of climate change on Australia; 7. Australia's emissions and the economy; 8. Counting the costs; 9. International response; 10. Towards global agreement; 11. Deepening international collaboration. 12. Targets and trajectories; 13. Australian climate change policy overview; 14. Emissions trading; 15. Domestic adaptation policy; 16. Research, development and innovation; 17. Network infrastructure; 18. Information; 19. Income distribution; 20. The energy transformation; 21. The transport transformation; 22. Agriculture and forestry transformation; 23. Growth and structural change in the low-emissions economy; 24. A fateful choice.

Über Autor(innen)

Garnaut, Ross
Professor Ross Garnaut is Distinguished Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University.