Overview -- Baseline emissions under business as usual -- Abatement initiatives in the Copenhagen Accord and Cancun Agreements -- Abatement cost functions -- Abatement costs through 2050 -- Trade and timing -- Estimating investment requirements and adaptation costs -- Synthesis

This book builds a bridge between sustainability science and engineering. It provides the latest information on sustainability issues and solutions by discussing them from basic concepts to scientific consensus to technical solutions. It identifies and addresses the major issues related to...