文档介绍:The corporate greenhouse
The corporate greenhouse
C l i m at e C h a n g e P o l i c y i n a G lo b a l i z i n g Wo r l d
y da s c h r e u d e r
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The Corporate Greenhouse: Climate Change Policy in a Globalizing World was first
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Contents
acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 Climate-change policy in a globalizing world 8
2 From Rio to Kyoto and beyond 33
3 Trade liberalization, economic development
and the environment 69
4 The transnational corporation and the global economy 100
5 The EU Emissions Trading Scheme
in the corporate greenhouse 122
6 The Clean Development Mechanism
in the corporate greenhouse 163
7 Towards a more equitable and sustainable
climate-change regime 194
Notes 219
Index 249
Figures, tables and boxes
box The Kyoto Protocol 12
table Carbon emissions in China, India, E