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EnvStud 605 – Strategies for Sustainability

Content: Global issues and response strategies: Overview. Past issues and new problems: A plea for action. Environment, energy, and economy: Strategies for sustainability Policy measures for global environmental problems: A Japanese perspective. Environment, economy, energy, and sustainable development. The status of the global environment. Climate changes due to the increase in greenhouse gases as predicted by climate models. Deforestation and desertification in developing countries. Energy-economy interactions in stabilizing CO2 emissions. Modelling economically efficient abatement of greenhouse gases. Macroeconomic costs and other side-effects of reducing CO2 emissions. The effects of CO2 reduction policies on energy markets. Long-term strategies for mitigating global warming. Energy issues in developing countries. Long-term strategies of developing countries.

Course Lecturer: Gerhard Berchtold, PhD

ECTS credits: 6

Coursebook:

Environment, energy, and economy: strategies for sustainability

Edited by Yoichi Kaya and Keiichi Yokobori.

United NationsUniversity Press
TOKYO • NEW YORK • PARIS

© The United NationsUniversity, 1997

United Nations University Press
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Cover design by Joyce C. Weston

Printed in the United States of America

UNUP-911
ISBN 92-808-0911 -3

This volume contains the major discussions presented at the UnitedNationsUniversity's Tokyo Conference on "Global Environment, Energy, and Economic Development" held at its Headquarters from 25 to 27 October 1993. The presentations are grouped into six parts of the main issues and conclusions.