The book starts with an overview of Climate Science. It discusses the signs of Warming, the impacts and consequences on several sectors - terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, water resources, ocean systems, agriculture, food production and food security, human health and safety, livelihoods and poverty, Arctic populations, low-lying States, so on. Mathematical models to project future climate and the resulting concerns, global adaptation experiences, and opportunities for future execution are explained. The mitigation approaches, chiefly decarbonizing the energy sector by developing and applying clean/low carbon energy sources and improving energy efficiency, and the evolving geoengineering schemes are dealt. Carbon pricing, an economic tool to ensure emissions reductions, and transition to a low carbon economy to stimulate sustainable growth are described. The continued global efforts under the UN or otherwise until the recent Paris Agreement to arrive at policy responses to tackle this intriguing but daunting problem of climate change are vividly expounded.
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Author(s): Jayarama Reddy Puthalpet
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 540
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Earth Climate System – Overview
1.1 Introduction
1.2 We Live in a Greenhouse
1.3 Earth’s Climate System
1.4 Mathematical Modelling of Climate System – Briefing
Chapter 2: Observed Changes in Earth System and their Causes
2.1 Observed Changes
2.2 Processes Influencing Climate System
2.3 Observed Changes Vs Model Simulations; Attribution
2.4 Global Scale to Regional Scale
Chapter 3: Impacts on Systems and Vulnerability
3.1 Regional Impacts
3.2 Sectorial Impacts
Chapter 4: Global Adaptation Experience
4.1 Sectors
4.2 Regions
Chapter 5: Future Climate Change Projections
5.1 How Climate Projections are Made?
5.2 New Climate Scenarios: Representative Concentration Pathways
5.3 Near & Long-term Climate Change Predictions
5.4 Climate Targets and Climate Stabilization
Chapter 6: Identified Risks and Opportunities for Adaptation
6.1 Climate Change and Risks
6.2 Key Risks and Potential for Adaptation
6.3 Managing Future Risks and Building Resilience
Chapter 7: Mitigation of Climate Change
7.1 Scenarios Options Available
7.2 Energy Supply Sector
7.3 Status of Energy Sources
7.4 Benefits and Risks associated with Mitigation
7.5 Barriers and Opportunities
7.6 Energy related GHG Emissions
7.7 Energy Supply in Low-stabilization Scenarios
7.8 Geoengineering Technologies
Chapter 8: Global Policy Responses to Climate Change
8.1 UN Efforts to Develop a Policy Outline
8.2 Economic Implications of Policy
8.3 Carbon Pricing – A Policy Option
8.4 Integration among Mitigation, Adaptation and Sustainable Development
Annexure: Global Temperature Measurement
Annexure: PaleoClimatology‐Ice Core Studies
Annexure: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Projects
Annexure: El Niño and La Nina (ENSO)
Annexure: Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)
References
Index
