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Автор: Oliver Tickell
Издательство: Zed Books
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 1848130244
Количество страниц: 302
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1 Мб
Каталожный номер: 37196
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Economist Nicholas Stern famously described climate change as ‘the greatest market failure the world has seen’. But there is an exception: the attempts of the world’s governments to redress that market failure, beginning with the Climate Convention’s Kyoto Protocol. Far from overcoming the market failure identified by Stern, the Kyoto Protocol has created a whole new spectrum of market failures – like Hans Christian Andersen’s demonic distorting mirror when it was smashed to smithereens. First among the Protocol’s failures is that its key objective – to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – is unmet, as reported by Michael Raupach in 2007.3 Indeed, the rate of increase of global CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and from industry has accelerated, from 1.1 per cent per year for 1990–99 to more than 3 per cent per year for 2000–04. The emissions growth rate since 2000, as Raupach writes, ‘was greater than for the most fossil-fuel intensive of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emissions scenarios developed in the late 1990s’.
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