Climate Change 2007 - Mitigation of Climate Change
The Climate Change 2007 volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment of climate change available. This IPCC Working Group III volume is a state-of-the-art assessment of the scientific, technical, environmental, economic, and social aspects of the mitigation of climate change. Written by the world's leading experts, the IPCC volumes will again prove to be invaluable for researchers, students, and policymakers, and will form the standard reference works for policy decisions for government and industry worldwide.
- THE international, impartial report on the economics and politics of climate change
- State-of-the-art analysis
- Authors are the best international researchers on climate change
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Product details
January 2008Adobe eBook Reader
9780511364105
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300 colour illus. 50 tables
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Summary for policymakers
- Technical Summary
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Framing issues
- 3. Issues related to mitigation in the long term context
- 4. Energy supply
- 5. Transport and its infrastructure
- 6. Residential and commercial buildings
- 7. Industry
- 8. Agriculture
- 9. Forestry
- 10. Waste management
- 11. Mitigation from a cross sectoral perspective
- 12. Sustainable development and mitigation
- 13. Policies, instruments and co-operative agreements
- Annex I: Glossary
- Annex II: Acronyms, abbreviations and chemical compounds
- Annex III: List of authors and reviewers
- Index.
