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Summary
Summary
The Climate Change 2007 volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment of climate change available. This IPCC Working Group III volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art and worldwide overview of scientific knowledge related to the mitigation of climate change. It includes a detailed assessment of costs and potentials of mitigation technologies and practices, implementation barriers, and policy options for the sectors: energy supply, transport, buildings, industry, agriculture, forestry and waste management. It links sustainable development policies with climate change practices. This volume will again be the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change, including students and researchers, analysts and decision-makers in governments and the private sector.
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Despite the grim science and impact scenarios presented by earlier volumes in this series (Climate Change 2007 Working Group I and Working Group II), Working Group III offers an optimistic portfolio of adaptation and mitigation alternatives to reduce the risks of climate change. This volume details the options policy makers might choose to reduce or avoid climate change, spells out the costs, predicts necessary time scales, defines required policy actions, and examines the ancillary benefits that align climate change with sustainable development. After confirming that carbon dioxide is the most significant greenhouse gas, key mitigation technologies and currently available practices pertaining to agriculture, forests, and transportation are matched with expected improvements such as increased crop yields, improved species, extensive use of remote sensors, commercialized second-generation biofuels, and more. Health benefits from reduced air pollution, energy security, improved trade relations, and a wider distribution of energy services to remote areas are additional projected advantages. Climate change mitigation may also result from lifestyle and behavior patterns, such as reduced car usage and more efficient driving. Reward systems for good behavior in industry and commerce are encouraged, and the reciprocal relationship between climate change mitigation and sustainable development is highly recommended and heavily referenced. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. R. M. Ferguson emeritus, Eastern Connecticut State University
Table of Contents
| Foreword |
| Preface |
| Summary for policymakers |
| Technical Summary |
| 1 Introduction |
| 2 Framing issues |
| 3 Issues related to mitigation in the long term context |
| 4 Energy supply |
| 5 Transport and its infrastructure |
| 6 Residential and commercial buildings |
| 7 Industry |
| 8 Agriculture |
| 9 Forestry |
| 10 Waste management |
| 11 Mitigation from a cross sectoral perspective |
| 12 Sustainable development and mitigation |
| 13 Policies, instruments and co-operative agreements |
| Annex I Glossary |
| Annex II Acronyms, abbreviations and chemical compounds |
| Annex III List of authors and reviewers |
| Index |
