Closing windows and opening flood gates: recent climate change science and implications for climate policy

Authors

  • Andy Reisinger

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v5i2.4291

Keywords:

Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), mitigation, sustainable development, Emissions Trading System

Abstract

The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), released in four volumes during2007, provides a commanding summary of global knowledge about climate change. It covers the scientific basis of climate change, its potential impacts, and response options through adaptation, mitigation and their links with sustainable development (IPCC,2007a, b, c, d).

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Policy Quarterly volume 5 number 2 2009

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2009-05-01

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2009): Policy Quarterly

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