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Carbon sinks and climate change : forests in the fight against global warming
Hunt, Colin - 2009
"Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850957
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International climate policy to combat global warming : an analysis of the ancillary benefits of reducing carbon emissions
Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2002
In their pursuit of policies to combat global warming, countries will find that they may also receive additional benefits which are not directly associated with the primary aim. These ancillary benefits are likely to include, for example, a reduction in pollution as a result of carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474163
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Technology strategy and innovation management
Leiblein, Michael J. - 2011
-30 -- Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower (1996), 'Customer Power, Strategic Investment, and the Failure of Leading Firms … challenges posed in these settings and explores the logic that may be used to evaluate innovative investment proposals. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852298
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The economics of power, knowledge, and time
Javary, Michèle - 2002
This book examines the significance of technological, organisational and institutional change as crucial factors in the analysis of the turnover time of capital. It also studies the related set of theoretical questions that concern the relationship between power, knowledge and time, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474123
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Technological change and the environmental imperative : challenges to the copper industry
Brundenius, Claes (contributor) - 2003
, and drawing on case material from Chile, China, Peru and Russia, the book goes on to assess the latest technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850878
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Retirement provision in scary markets
Bateman, Hazel (contributor) - 2007
Who's afraid of the big bad bear? : or, why investment in equities for retirement is not scary and why investing … annuitants / Susan Thorp, Geoffrey Kingston and Hazel Bateman -- Smoothing investment returns / Anthony Asher -- Ansett …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420067
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Trends in climate change legislation
Averchenkova, Alina (contributor);  … - 2017
Contents: 1. Introduction / A. Averchenkova, S. Fankhauser and M. Nachmany -- Part I -- How climate change legislation comes about -- 2. The national and international drivers of climate change legislation / A. Clare, S. Fankhauser and C. Gennaioli -- 3. Climate change legislation and policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419960
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Climate and trade policy : bottom-up approaches towards global agreement
Carraro, Carlo (ed.); Egenhofer, Christian (ed.) - 2007
Bottom-up approaches towards a global climate agreement : an overview -- Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer and Noriko Fujiwara -- Regional and subglobal climate blocs : a cost-benefit analysis of bottom-up climate regimes / Barbara Buchner and Carlo Carraro -- Do regional integration approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420021
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Corporate strategies and the clean development mechanism : developing country financing for developed country commitments?
Lütken, Søren Ender; Michaelowa, Axel - 2008
book arrives at three fundamental, interconnected, conclusions: CDM is logically a unilaterally driven investment activity …; CDM investment is an irrelevant compliance instrument for companies from industrialised countries and that this state of … its analysis of corporate views on investment in CDM projects, this book will find widespread appeal amongst climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473791
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Global emissions trading : key issues for industrialized countries
Kerr, Suzi (ed.) - 2000
Issues surrounding Annex I trading - the trading of greenhouse gas emissions among industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change - comprise the central theme of this collection, which offers an integrated discussion of the practical, economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473871