Climate change and the agenda for research
- ed.
The Center for International Climate and Energy Research Oslo (CICERO), founded in 1990, is a policy research foundation of the University of Oslo - Norway`s largest university. After the United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), CICERO convened a seminar to assess the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that was one of UNCED`s principal legacies. The essays collected in this volume derive from the presentations at that seminar. As one might suspect, the resulting collection is diverse in subject matter and variable in quality and pertinence. Papers deals with a diverse array of topics relating to anthropogenic climate change: greenhouse gas inventories, energy policies, means for abatement of carbon dioxide emissions, and legal and economic issues. Refreshingly, a number of the papers treat these issues from the perspective of the developing countries that will play an ever-increasing role in these issues, both as villians and victims. While hardly bedside reading, the compendium as a whole is a useful contribution to the vast literature on the climate change issue. The focus of a number of the papers on problems of the developing nations is particularly welcome, contributing usefully to filling a troubling gap in the international dialogue on climate change. However, the collection falls short of the promise of its title. Although topics for research are implicit in the papers, the volume does not attempt to organize these into an explicit agenda. It is more a smorgasbord than a coordinated menu.
- OSTI ID:
- 92003
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: From review by John S. Perry, National Research Council, in American Meteorological Society, Vol. 76, No. 6, (Jun 1995); PBD: 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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