Emissions Trading and Carbon Management
Contents: Preface. 1. Emissions of Green House Gases (GHGs): the characteristics and environmental impacts. 2. Emissions trading and accounting of carbon credits. 3. Global initiative in abatement of climate change and promoting emissions trading. 4. Regulatory regime and international carbon finance. 5. Carbon management: carbon neutrality and carbon literacy. Bibliography. Glossary. Index.
"Climate change basically implies a long-term significant change in the "average weather" that a given region experiences. These changes can be caused by dynamic processes on earth, external abiotic and biotic forces, and more prominently by human activities. Global climate change (GCC), is widely believed to be caused by the greenhouse gases (GHG). The intergovernmental panel on climate change reported for the first time in 1990 that greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the global atmosphere were rising as a result of human GHG emissions, principally from fossil-fuel (coal, petroleum and natural gas) burning. Since global climate change is inextricably linked with the enhanced build-up of greenhouse gases, emissions trading in the form of carbon credits or CERs is opening up a new vista of trade opportunities with concomitant prospect for reduction of emissions-both by the developed and developing nations of the world. Various national and international programmes undertaken by the government and voluntarily or by the non-government agencies have positively impacted the progressive reduction of emissions only to some insignificant extent in many parts of the world.
The book provides valuable and updated information on the state of global climate change, principally resultant of emissions, the compositions and characteristics of greenhouse gases and their impact particularly on environment and human life, modus operandi of emissions trading and accounting of carbon credits, global initiatives and cooperation in abatement of emissions, regulatory and governance aspects of carbon credit flows, carbon management and international carbon finance, carbon neutrality, carbon footprints and last but not the least carbon literacy to help build a carbon-neutral global community.
The author feels that the book will be useful to the readers at large; and social scientists, research scholars and dedicated workers in the field of ecology, environment, economics, industries and energy sector." (jacket)
