A guide to the Kyoto protocol: a treaty with potentially vital strategic implications for the renewables industry
✍ Scribed by Jeremy Leggett
- Book ID
- 104404862
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1364-0321
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✦ Synopsis
Why should renewables advocates care about the arcane business of multilateral climate negotiations< The answer is simple[ Because these long!running and oft bogged!down talks have as their {ultimate objective| a goal with seismic implications for energy markets] {substantial| reductions in greenhouse gas emissions[ Coming anywhere close to that goal would entail the creation of multi!hundred billion dollar markets in renewables in the years ahead[ And in Kyoto last December\ governments took a meaningful _rst step in that direction[ This paper is a brief summary\ and analysis of that _rst step[ It concludes with some observations about immediate implications for the renewables industries[