Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change are urgently required by the world community. However, international negotiations on this issue repeatedly come up against the problems of allocating responsibility for the greenhouse effect, and bearing the costs of remedying the situation.;This volume offers a multidisciplinary response to the challenge. It presents the scientific, economic and political issues and goes on to describe the policy options available. The different ways of determining responsibility for greenhouse gases and calculating obligations to pay for hazards to the environment are analyzed. The contributors examine the implications for various countries, while a concluding chapter explores climatic change negotations - what is at stake, and for whom.

Kirk R. Smith

I: Measuring responsibility; 1: Introduction; 2: The basics of greenhouse gas indices; 3: Assessing emissions: five approaches compared; 4: Who pays (to solve the problem and how much)?; II: Resource transfers; 5: North-South carbon abatement costs; 6: North-South transfer; 7: Insuring against sea level rise; III: National greenhouse gas reduction cost curves; 8: Integrating ecology and economy in India; 9: Carbon abatement potential in West Africa; 10: Abatement of carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil; 11: Thailand's demand side management initiative: a practical response to global warming; 12: Carbon abatement in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States; 13: Greenhouse gas emission abatement in Australia; IV: Conclusion; 14: Constructing a global greenhouse regime