TY - BOOK ID - 4816967 TI - The climate casino : risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world PY - SN - 9780300189773 9780300212648 030018977X 030021264X PB - Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Climatic changes KW - Environmental policy. KW - Climat KW - Environnement KW - Effect of human beings on. KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Changements, Effets de l'homme sur les KW - Changements KW - Aspect de l'environnement KW - Aspect social KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Homme KW - Politique de l'environnement KW - Développement durable KW - Effets du climat KW - Aspect économique KW - Climatic changes. KW - Environmental policy KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Social aspects KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Politique de l'environnement. KW - Développement durable. KW - Effets du climat. KW - Aspect social. KW - Aspect économique. KW - Climatic changes - Effect of human beings on KW - Climatic changes - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4816967 AB - Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the climate casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns the author. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this book he explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, he describes the science, economics, and politics involved, and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. He discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change. He offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming. ER -