Climate Change Mitigation A Balanced Approach to Climate Change /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yamaguchi, Mitsutsune (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 4
• Subjects: Engineering.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Climate change.; Energy industries.; Environmental economics.; Energy Economics.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Environmental Economics.

This book provides a fresh and innovative perspective on climate change policy. By emphasizing the multiple facets of climate policy, from mitigation to adaptation, from technological innovation and diffusion to governance issues, it contains a comprehensive overview of the economic and policy dimen...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The ultimate objective of climate response strategies, and a desirable and feasible international framework
• Mitigation targets and effort-sharing among regions and countries
• Balance between energy security and mitigation responses
• Cost of mitigation
• Balance between mitigation and adaptation
• Policies and measures
• Potential for energy efficiency improvement and barriers
• Technology diffusion and development
• Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and its impact on Japanese energy and climate policy
• Epilogue, IPCC and communication.