The implications of rapid development for emissions and climate change mitigation

Abstract

Includes contributions from leading climate change policy experts Highly topical and political subject that discusses the Stern Report and the international framework and negotiations for a post-Kyoto climate change agreement Written in an accessible style that enables a wide readership to come to grips with the main issues of climate change Discusses major climate change issues such as what sort of overall target for emissions reductions is credible and over what timetable, what the basis for any new international agreement might be and how the interests of the developing countries might be reconciled with those of the industrialised countries.