Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol ─ Asia and the World

Government personnel, academics, and business representatives explore how measures to mitigate climate change are being implemented in Asia. After arranging the chairs, they look at the clean development mechanism, emissions trading in the European Union and Asia, and effective implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Asia. Among the topics are creating a strategic national planning framework to deal with global warming, climate change and living in the anthropocene, the clean development mechanism in Southeast Asia, empirical considerations in the development of clean development mechanism projects in Asia, the European Union emissions trading scheme, trends in carbon trading, Singapore's national climate change strategy, glacial melting and human security in the Himalayas, a South Asian perspective on the Kyoto Protocol and beyond, and protecting forests to mitigate global climate change. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)