Carbon Shock: A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy - Couverture rigide

Schapiro, Mark

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ISBN 10 : 1603585575 ISBN 13 : 9781603585576

Editeur : Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2014

Synopsis

In Carbon Shock, veteran journalist Mark Schapiro takes readers on a journey into a world where the same chaotic forces reshaping our natural world are also transforming the economy, playing havoc with corporate calculations, shifting economic and political power, and upending our understanding of the real risks, costs, and possibilities of what lies ahead. In this ever-changing world, carbon the stand-in for all greenhouse gases rules, and disrupts, and calls upon us to seek new ways to reduce it while factoring it into nearly every long-term financial plan we have. But how? From the jungles of the Amazon to the farms in California s Central Valley, from greening cities like Pittsburgh to rising powerhouses like China, from the oil-splattered beaches of Spain to carbon-trading desks in London, Schapiro deftly explores the key axis points of change. For almost two decades, global climate talks have focused on how to make polluters pay for the carbon they emit. It remains an unfolding financial mystery: What are the costs? Who will pay for them? Who do you pay? How do you pay? And what are the potential impacts? The answers to these questions, and more, are crucial to understanding, if not shaping, the coming decade. Carbon Shock evokes a world in which the parameters of our understanding are shifting on a scale even more monumental than how the digital revolution transformed financial decision-making toward a slow but steady acknowledgement of the costs and consequences of climate change. It also offers a critical new perspective as global leaders gear up for the next round of climate talks in 2015."

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This new economic landscape is a function of the enormous costs that climate change is imposing on every society around the globe. Those costs hinge on the price we assign to carbon, and the volatile markets that determine that price. In short, carbon, as a commodity, has become the most disruptive force on the world economic stage. As it becomes more and more urgent for polluters to pay to emit carbon, a financial mystery unfolds: What are the costs? Who has the responsibility to pay for them? Who do you pay? How do you pay? And what are the potential impacts? These are the questions veteran journalist Mark Schapiro attempts to answer as he illuminates the struggle to pinpoint carbon's true costs and allocate them fairly--all while bumping up against the vagaries of the free market, the lobbying power of corporations, the political manoeuverings of countries, and the tolerance of everyday consumers buying a cup of coffee, a tank of gas, or an airplane ticket. For almost two decades, the primary topic of global climate negotiations has been to find a way to pay for the costs of carbon, slow greenhouse gas emissions, and stimulate a shift away from fossil fuels in order to shrink the earth s carbon footprint. The key tool to date--the international carbon trade--has foundered in a sea of questions deftly explored by Schapiro, and in the turmoil of a global recession. As we approach the next climate negotiations in 2015, will nations stick to business as usual? Or will the world come to terms with the real price for carbon, and figure out a sensible way to pay for it?

Biographie de l'auteur

Mark Schapiro is an award-winning investigative journalist who explores the intersection between the environment, economics and international political power. His writing appears in Harper's, The Atlantic, Yale Environment 360, The Nation, and other publications. His most recent book, Carbon Shock: A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy, reports from environmental tension zones around the world where the costs of climate change are being experienced and fought over. His previous book was Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power. He is an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He was formerly senior correspondent at The Center for Investigative Reporting.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603585575
• ISBN 13: 9781603585576
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible