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Controlling climate change /

"An unbiased and comprehensive overview, based on the findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Using no jargon, it looks at tackling and adapting to man-made climate change, and works through the often confusing potential solutions. Bert Metz is the former co-chair of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Metz, Bert
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/64032/cover/9780521764032.jpg
Table of Contents:
  • Climate change and its impacts : a short summary
  • Greenhouse gas emissions
  • Keeping climate change within sustainable limits : where to draw the line?
  • Development first
  • Energy supply
  • Transportation
  • Buildings
  • Industry and waste management
  • Land use, agriculture, and forestry
  • How does it fit together?
  • Policies and measures
  • International climate change agreements.