• Introduction: The reckoning
• Part I. Shouts in the street : 1979-1982. The whole banana : spring 1979
• Mirror worlds : spring 1979
• Between clambake and chaos : July 1979
• Enter Cassandra, raving : 1979-1980
• A very aggressive defensive program : 1979-1980
• Tiger on the road : October 1980
• A deluge most unnatural : November 1980-September 1981
• Heroes and villains : March 1982
• The direction of an impending catastrophe : 1982
• Part II. Bad science fiction : 1983-1988. Caution not panic : 1983-1984
• The world of action : 1985
• The ozone in October : fall 1985-summer 1986
• Atmospheric scientist, New York, N.Y. : fall 1987-spring 1988
• Part III. You will see things that you shall believe : 1988-1989. Nothing but bonfires : summer 1988
• Signal weather : June 1988
• Woodstock for climate change : June 1988-April 1989
• Fragmented world : fall 1988
• The great includer and the old engineer : spring 1989
• Natural processes : May 1989
• The White House effect : spring-fall 1989
• Skunks at the garden party : November 1989
• Afterword: Glass-bottomed boats.

"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"-- Publisher marketing.

• Overview
• Regions
• Report findings.

• The transitory nature of industrial society
• Climate change and energy scarcity
• What the climate can change
• When energy runs short
• The struggle over knowledge
• The moral economy of inaction
• Where to go from here.

A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency. The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In this book, Joerg Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming to terms with its two most imminent choke points: climate change and energy scarcity. He offers a thorough and accessible account of these two challenges as well as the linkages between them. Friedrichs contends that industrial civilization cannot outlast our ability to burn fossil fuels and that the demise of industrial society would entail cataclysmic change, including population decreases. To understand the social and political implications, he examines historical cases of climate stress and energy scarcity: devastating droughts in the ancient Near East; the Little Ice Age in the medieval Far North; the Japanese struggle to prevent "fuel starvation" from 1918 to 1945; the "totalitarian retrenchment" of the North Korean governing class after the end of Soviet oil deliveries; and Cuba's socioeconomic adaptation to fuel scarcity in the 1990s. He draws important lessons about the likely effects of climate and energy disruptions on different kinds of societies. The warnings of climate scientists are met by denial and inaction, while energy experts offer little guidance on the effects of future scarcity. Friedrichs suggests that to confront our predicament we must affirm our core values and take action to transform our way of life. Whether we are private citizens or public officials, complacency is not an option: climate change and energy scarcity are emerging facts of life.
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• About the Author vi Preface vii
• 1 Introduction 1 Part I: Diagnoses
• 2 Cancer of Westphalia: Climate Diplomacy and the International System 33
• 3 Malignancy of the Great Polluters: The United States and China 64
• 4 Addictions of Modernity: Affl uence and Consumption 93 Part II: Treatments
• 5 People-Centered Diplomacy: Human Rights and Globalized Justice 119
• 6 Differentiated Responsibility: National and Individual 144
• 7 Consumption of Happiness: Sustainability and Wellbeing 171
• 8 Conclusion 197 Notes 224 References 245 Index 277.
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Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action. What explains this failure to effectively tackle one of the world's most serious problems? And what can we do about it? To answer these questions, Paul G. Harris looks at climate politics as a doctor might look at a very sick patient. He performs urgent diagnoses and prescribes vital treatments to revive our ailing planet before it's too late. The book begins by diagnosing what's most wrong with climate politics, including the anachronistic international system, which encourages nations to fight for their narrowly perceived interests and makes major cuts in greenhouse pollution extraordinarily difficult; the deadlock between the United States and China, which together produce over one-third of global greenhouse gas pollution but do little more than demand that the other act first; and affluent lifestyles and overconsumption, which are spreading rapidly from industrialized nations to the developing world. The book then prescribes several "remedies" for the failed politics of climate change, including a new kind of climate diplomacy with people at its center, national policies that put the common but differentiated responsibilities of individuals alongside those of nations, and a campaign for simultaneously enhancing human wellbeing and environmental sustainability. While these treatments are aspirational, they are not intended to be utopian. As Harris shows, they are genuine, workable solutions to what ails the politics of climate change today.
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• Introduction
• What the science says
• What's actually happening
• What's likely to happen in the future
• Can we avoid the risks of climate change?
• Epilogue: The IPCC [i.e., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] is what, exactly?

Explains climate change-- its implications for the future, and what we can, and cannot, do to avoid further change.

• Prologue: Growing up under global warming
• Living through the storm
• Three feet of water
• My daughter's earth
• Ask the climate question
• The two-hundred-year plan
• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
• In vino veritas : the business of climate adaptation
• How will we feed ourselves?
• While the rich avert their eyes
• "This was a crime"
• Epilogue: Chiara in the year 2020.

For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard investigated climate change, but it took the birth of his daughter to bring the truth home. Another revelation came when an expert advised that, without doubt, global warming had arrived, more than a hundred years earlier than expected. Now, with his daughter and the next generation in mind, Hertsgaard delivers a resounding, motivating message of hope that will spur activism among parents, college students, and all readers. He gives specifics about what we can expect in the next fifty years: Chicago's climate transformed to resemble Houston's; the loss of cherished crops and luxuries, such as California wines; the redesign of U.S. cities. Addressing problems we'll face very soon and revealing where they'll be most serious, Hertsgaard offers "pictures" of what unbiased experts expect, and looks at who is taking wise, creative precautions. Hot is, finally, a book about how we'll survive.--Publisher description.

• The climate system and the forces that drive it
• Climate change and natural variability
• The basics of greenhouse gases
• Climate change is happening now
• The human effect on climate
• Complexity of the climate system
• Models as working representations of reality
• Projections of future climate
• Sea-level rise
• Stratospheric ozone depletion
• Working with scientists and scientific news sources
• Questions needing better answers
• Brief guide to false and misleading contrarian arguments.

• Double jeopardy : what the climate crisis means for the poor / Abigail Jones, Vinca LaFleur, and Nigel Purvis
• Climate change impacts in the developing world : implications for sustainable development / Anthony Nyong
• Toward a new international climate change agreement / Elliot Diringer
• Greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in China : progress and opportunities / Ned Helme
• Linking communities, forests, and carbon / Michael Jenkins
• Integrating climate change into development : multiple benefits of mitigation and adaptation / Atiq Rahman
• Development in the balance : agriculture and water / Robert Mendelsohn
• Public health adaptation to climate change in low-income countries / Kristie L. Ebi
• Linking adaptation and disaster risk reduction / Saleemul Huq and Jessica Ayers
• The climate-security connection : what it means for the poor / Joshua W. Busby
• Financing adaptation to a warmer world : opportunities for innovation and experimentation / Manish Bapna and Heather McGray
• Exploring the potential for public-private insurance to help the world's poor to adapt and thrive as the climate changes / Ian Burton and Thea Dickinson
• Corporate action on climate adaptation and development : mobilizing new partnerships to build climate change resilience in developing countries and communities / Jane Nelson
• Mobilizing action for climate change adaptation in the North and South / Heather K. Coleman, Raymond C. Offenheiser, and David Waskow

Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt most acutely by the world's poor. Absent urgent action, new threats to food security, public health, and other societal needs may reverse hard-fought human development gains. Climate Change and Global Poverty makes concrete recommendations to integrate international development and climate protection strategies. It demonstrates that effective climate solutions must empower global development, while poverty alleviation itself must become a central strategy for both mitigating emissions and reducing global vulnerability to adverse climate impacts.
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• Foreword--
• 1. Integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight and Jill Jager--
• 2. Integrated regional assessment: overview and framework Brent Yarnal--
• 3. Integrated regional assessment: qualitative and quantitative issues Elizabeth L. Malone--
• 4. Scale and scalar dynamics in integrated regional assessments Colin Polsky and Darla K. Munroe--
• 5. Uncertainty management in integrated regional assessment Marjolein B. A. van Asselt--
• 6. Vulnerability of people, places and systems to environmental change Neil Leary and Sara Beresford--
• 7. Integrating climate change adaptation into sustainable development Thea Dickinson, Livia Bizikova and Ian Burton--
• 8. Stakeholders in integrated regional assessment Ann Fisher and Bernd Kasemir--
• 9. A framework for integrated regional assessment C. Gregory Knight, Ann Fisher and the CIRA team--
• 10. The global context of integrated regional assessment Jill Jager--
• 11. The Asia-Pacific integrated model Mikiko Kainuma, Yuzuru Matsuoka, Tsuneyuki Morita and Kiyoshi Takahashi--
• 12. Integrated regional assessment for South Asia: a case study P. R. Shukla, Amit Garg and Subash Dhar--
• 13. Climate change and regional sustainability in the Yangtze Delta, China Yongyuan Yin--
• 14. From CLIMPACTS to SimCLIM: development of an integrated assessment model system Richard Warrick--
• 15. Why regional and spatial specificity is needed in environmental assessments Rik Leemans--
• 16. The SARCS integrated study of Southeast Asia: assessments with networks Louis Lebel--
• 17. Institutions for collaborative environmental research in the Americas: a case study of the Inter American Institute for Global Change (IAI) Diana Liverman--
• 18. The Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program: crafting effective assessments for the long haul Roger S. Pulwarty, Claudia Nierenberg and Caitlin Simpson--
• 19. Integrated regional assessment: reflections on the state of the art Jill Jager and C. Gregory Knight-- Index.
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Integrated Regional Assessment (IRA) promotes a better understanding of how regions contribute to global environmental change. This book provides a detailed treatment of the methodological challenges of IRA and a set of international examples illustrating the practice of such assessments at the regional scale. The first nine chapters address questions of scale, uncertainty, quantitative versus qualitative approaches, and particular conceptual frameworks for IRA evaluation. The next five chapters illustrate a range of IRA activities combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in innovative ways. The final five chapters review IRA as a process from an implementation perspective. This volume is the culmination of the START/CIRA/IHDP initiative: a collection of international research programmes, including the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). This is an important resource for researchers and policymakers in environmental science and policy.
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• Instruments and institutions - key design issues in climate change policy, Michael Faure, Joveeta Gupta, Andries Nentjes-- the Kyoto mechanisms and the economics of their design, Luke Brander-- alternative design options for emissions trading - a survey and assessment of the literature, Jan-Tjeerd Boom, Andries Nentjes-- limits on the design and enacting of climate change policies? the need to strike a balance between international trade law and environmental protection-- developing carbon trading in Europe - does grandfathering distort competition and lead to state aid?, Edwin Woerdman-- legal aspects of the Dutch approach on CO2 reduction, Chris Backes, Reinske Teuben-- legal feasibility of emissions tradings, Majan Peeters-- CDM in climate policies in the Netherlands - a promising tool?, Rianne de Leeuw, Ekko C. van Ierland-- optimal institutional arrangements and instruments for the promotion of energy from renewable sources, Jan Bongaerts, George Dogbe-- domestic capacity, regional organization, global climate change regime building process, lessons from the Netherlands-EU Kyoto protocol negotiation, Norichika Kanie-- global environmental change regimes - impact assessment on the basis of an extended GTAP-model, Shunli Wang, Peter Nijkamp, Onno Kuik.
• Part 2 after Kyoto: the multi-sector convergence approach to global burden sharing of greenhouse gas reductions, Jos Bruggink-- the Dutch energy transition and its institutional problems - report from a stakeholder assessment, Matthijs Hisschemoller-- modulating dynamics in transport for climate protection, Rene Kemp, Ellen Moors-- institutional change in Europe and the implications for climate control measures, Graham Bennett.
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The Kyoto Protocol was a milestone event in the process of getting global climate change on to the political agenda and taking the first tentative steps towards internationally co-ordinated action. This book brings together researchers from the disciplines of law, economics, political science and sociology to analyse the instruments which have been set to manage climate change and the institutional shifts that are required for the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The authors of this volume highlight the need for an adequate implementation structure and well designed flexible instruments to enable emissions targets to be achieved. They discuss the level of international co-ordination which is required for the smooth operation of flexibility mechanisms and the importance of ensuring these instruments fit within existing national structures. In some countries, there are concerns that the introduction of cap and credit trading programmes may require an overhaul of existing environmental legislation. Technical innovations will also have a critical role to play in preparing the ground for increasingly ambitious controls of GHGs. The authors emphasize the need for an evolutionary development of instruments to support such innovations and the potentially vital roles of firms and governments to help their quick diffusion.
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• Overview of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability to climate change
• Methods and tools
• Developing and applying scenarios
• Hydrology and water resources
• Ecosystems and their goods and services
• Coastal zones and marine ecosystems
• Human settlements, energy, and industry
• Insurance and other financial services
• Human health
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia and New Zealand
• Europe
• Latin America
• North America
• Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic)
• Small island states
• Adaptation to climate change in the context on sustainable development and equity
• Vulnerability to climate change and reasons for concern : a synthesis.

For Policymakers 1 -- Technical Summary 19 -- 1. Overview of Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability to Climate Change 75 -- 2. Methods and Tools 105 -- 3. Developing and Applying Scenarios 145 -- 4. Hydrology and Water Resources 191 -- 5. Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services 235 -- 6. Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems 343 -- 7. Human Settlements, Energy, and Industry 381 -- 8. Insurance and Other Financial Services 417 -- 9. Human Health 451 -- 10. Africa 487 -- 11. Asia 533 -- 12. Australia and New Zealand 591 -- 13. Europe 641 -- 14. Latin America 693 -- 15. North America 735 -- 16. Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic) 801 -- 17. Small Island States 843 -- 18. Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development and Equity 877 -- 19. Vulnerability to Climate Change and Reasons for Concern: A Synthesis 913 -- A. Authors and Expert Reviewers 971 -- C. Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Units 997 -- D. List of Major IPCC Reports 1001.