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Roger A. Sedjo

Surviving Global Warming

Why Eliminating Greenhouse Gases Isn't Enough

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This provocative and important overview of the challenges of and possible approaches to climate change by an expert and shared recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize is essential reading for policy makers, climate scientists, and lay persons alike.Though the Paris Agreement on climate change was a significant achievement, most authorities agree that its measures to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be insufficient to offset the forecasted increase in global warming. Even in the unlikely case of ideal compliance, the Earth will still experience major climate-driven damages. Given this reality, climate expert Roger A. Sedjo argues in this book tha… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63388-528-8
  • EAN: 9781633885288
  • Produktnummer: 28452642
  • Verlag: Random House UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 245 S.
  • Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.7 cm 459 g
  • Gewicht: 459

Über den Autor


Roger A. Sedjo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at Resources for the Future, a Washington, DC resource and environmental think tank, and he is director of RFF's Forest Economics and Policy Program. Sedjo shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on the IPCC Climate Assessments, numbers 2, 3, and 4. He also received an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, as well as numerous other awards and fellowships including a PERC Fellowship, German Marshall Plan Fellowship, and Sloan Foundation Fellowship. He has written or edited fifteen books related to forestry and natural resources as well as hundreds of peer-reviewed papers. Sedjo has served on the EPA Scientific Advisory Board addressing questions of carbon regulations for biomass energy. In addition, he has consulted or worked with the World Bank, UNDP, Asian Development Bank, USAID, OECD, FAO, IIED, IIASA and other international organizations. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he lives in Oro Valley, Arizona.

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