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Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Paris Climate Agreement explores the issues surrounding the 2015 international agreement to combat climate change. Many nations were shocked when the United States later announced its decision to withdraw from the agreement. The book explores these political ramifications and encourages readers to form their own opinions"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Though the Paris Agreement on climate change was a significant achievement, most authorities agree that its measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be insufficient to offset the forecasted increase in global warming. Even in the unlikely case of ideal compliance, the Earth will still experience major climate-driven damages. Given this reality, climate expert Roger A. Sedjo argues in this book that a Plan B is required. He makes a compelling...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Overview: The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal energy The Great Transition details the accelerating...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25% to almost 30% of world energy use. And while European countries have congratulated themselves on reducing emissions, they have increased their carbon imports from China and other developing nations, who continue to expand their coal use. As standards of living...
Author
Publisher
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
With the passage of the 2005 Sense of the Senate climate change resolution calling on the Congress to enact a mandatory, market-based program to slow, stop, and reverse the growth of greenhouse gases, the issue of related costs has taken on increased importance. Indeed, the resolution itself states that the program should be enacted at a rate and in a manner that "will not significantly harm the United States economy" and "will encourage comparable...
Author
Publisher
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A number of congressional proposals to advance programs that reduce greenhouse gases have been introduced in the 110th Congress. Proposals receiving particular attention would create market-based greenhouse gas reduction programs along the lines of the trading provisions of the current acid rain reduction program established by the 1990 Clear Air Act Amendments. This paper presents a side-by-side comparison of the major provisions of those bills and...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"By turns pragmatic and inspiring, SPEED & SCALE intersperses Doerr's wide-ranging analysis with firsthand accounts from Jeff Bezos, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Mary Barra, Bill Gates, and other intrepid policy leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, and activists. A launchpad for those who are ready to act now, this book is geared to leaders in every walk of life. With a definitive action plan, the latest science, and a rising climate movement on our...
Author
Publisher
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A major international assessment released in 2007 concluded that the Earth's climate had warmed unequivocally over the past century, and that elevated levels of so-called "greenhouse gases" (GHG) were likely responsible for a major portion of the observed warming. Elevated concentrations of GHG in the atmosphere are due mostly to human activities, especially emissions from use of fossil fuels, clearing of land, and some industrial processes. Continued...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 117-114
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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