Global Climate Change: Linking Energy, Environment, Economy and Equity

by William R. Wagner (Adapted by), James C. White (Editor), Carole N. Beal (Adapted by)

Overview

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Air Resources Information Clearinghouse held in Washington, D.C., December 5-6, 1991

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306443176
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	11/30/1992
Series:	Environmental Science Research , #45
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Opening Remarks.- Opening Remarks.- Challenges in the Face of Uncertainty.- Challenges in the Face of Uncertainty.- A Sustainable Energy Future — Technological Options for Change.- Steps to Reduce U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Technical Options and the Policies to Implement Them.- Energy Efficiency, Human Activities and Climate Change.- The Costs of Reducing U.S. CO2 Emissions: Further Sensitivity Analyses.- Integrating Energy, Economy, and Environmental Concerns.- “No Regrets” Tax Reform.- Multiple benefit Environmental Policies.- Energy and Environmental Policy: The Role of Markets.- Local/Regional Policies—Acting Globally by Thinking Locally.- Implications for Decision Making.- Implications for Decision Making: Government Perspectives.- Implications for Decision Making: The Electric Utilities’ Perspective.- Implications for Decision Making: Auto Industry Perspectives.- Implications for Decision Making: Industrial Sector Perspectives.- Implications for Decision Making: Sectoral Perspectives.- The Importance of Population Growth in Future Commercial Energy Consumption.- The Public as a Decision Maker.- Strategies for International Negotiations.- Status of Framework Convention Talks.- Equity in International Agreements.- The Ethics of Living in a Global Greenhouse.- Corporate and Personal Responsibility.- Intergenerational Equity.- Examining the Linkages — Which Policies Will Work?.- Energy Policy: Insurance against the Unknown.- Designing a Carbon Tax Strategy.- “Virtual Climate” and Climate Change Assessment: Paving the Way for Workable Climate Change Policies.- Examining the Linkages—Which Policies Will Work?.- A Congressional View of Workable Linkages.- Thinking about Global Climate Change.- Thinking about Global Climate Change.