Energy Exporters and Climate Change
Publisher: Royal Institute of International Affairs
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781862030718
Subjects: Energy industries & utilities; Global warming; Management of land & natural resources; Environmental Science; Exports & Imports; International Relations - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology
Description: "Policies to tackle climate change agreed at Kyoto and beyond will influence global energy choices, away from carbon-rich fossil fuels, and eventually towards renewable energy sources. This book suggests that the change process will take many years, and that it can be managed in other ways. In the short term, climate policies favour fuel shifts along a chain from coal to oil to natural gas. In the longer term they should encourage investment in low-emission industries, including in energy-exporting countries. The study proposes some new patterns of international cooperation, including emissions trading and the transfer of 'green' technologies." "The book should be read by energy-industry executives and policy analysts concerned with fossil fuels and renewables, and by those interested in the international politics of climate change and the environment." --Book Jacket.