Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Victor, David G

Titel

collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming

Auflage

New ed.

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and cogent book-reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events--David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument. He explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative.