Mitigating Climate Change
Subtitle: Flexibility Mechanisms (An Elsevier Energy Compendium)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: December 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780080440927
Subjects: Global warming; Science; Environmental Science; Climate Changes; Environmental Policy; United Nations Framework Conve; Environmental Studies; Public Policy - General; Science/Mathematics; Greenhouse gas mitigation; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Science / Environmental Science; Technology : Environmental Engineering & Technology; Climatic changes; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; (1992); Government policy
First sentence: At the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, 154 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which lays down measures to reduce the anthropogenous emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG).