Budgeting carbon for equity and sustainability /

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Imprint:[China] : Social Sciences Academic Press : Paths International Ltd., [2013]
©2013
Description:1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:China international analysis and evaluation reports
China international analysis and evaluation reports.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11224161
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Other authors / contributors:Pan, Jiahua, 1957-
Zhang, Ying.
ISBN:9781844641345
1844641341
9781844641406
1844641406
Notes:This compilation is based on the Proceedings of the Cass Forum (2010 Economics) on Climate Justice and the Carbon Budget Approach, held April 11-13, 2010 in Beijing, China.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:Climate change is a controversial topic worldwide today and the international regime and corresponding actions will inevitably have a lasting and profound influence on the world economy and international politics. As the largest developing country in the world, China plays an important role in international climate negotiations and is under increasing international pressure. The existing Kyoto Protocol model takes the level of emissions in 1990 as a base and determines the emission reduction obligations of each developed country through negotiation. The findings gathered in this book break thr.
Other form:Print version: Budgeting carbon for equity and sustainability 9781844641406
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Frameworks for budgeting carbon
  • part II. Sustainability requirement for a carbon budget approach
  • part III. Equality requirement for a carbon budget approach
  • part IV. Operation mechanisms of carbon budget approach.