Climate Change. Five Years After Kyoto
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Author(s): V. Grover (Ed.)
Publisher: Science Publishers
ISBN: 1578083265
Format: hardback
455pp
Price: $99.50
Review Date: 02 September 2004
Review: Climate change may be the most significant global problem that the world has ever faced. Five years after Kyoto the Kyoto Protocol may look bleak at times, especially as the USA has refused to ratify it. This book looks at the protocol and related topics: the science behind climate change, climate change treaties and politics, the instruments that can be used to implement the Protocol, human rights issues, and the impact of climate change and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in different countries. Authors from Southern Africa, Bangladesh, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, the Russian federation, Sri Lanka and Brasil all give case studies. Finally, the book takes stock of the Kyoto Protocol five years on. The world’s climate and state of the developing countries have not improve and the authors conclude that the global climate change debate needs revitalising.