Economics and Management of Climate Change

InhaltsangabeIntroduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation.- Introduction: Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation.- Climate change risks and risk assessment Climate change risks and risk assessment.- Rising natural catastrophe losses - what is the role of climate change?.- Evaluation of risk in cost-benefit analysis of climate change.- A global climate change risk assessment of droughts and floods.- Effects of low water levels on the river Rhine on the inland waterway transport sector.- Spillover impacts of climate policy on energyintensive industry.- Risks, vulnerability, and participation: a layered management approach.- Mitigation: emissions trading and CDM.- Intensity targets: implications for the economic uncertainties of emissions trading.- Three types of impact from the European Emission Trading Scheme: direct cost, indirect cost and uncertainty.- Participants' treatment of allowance price uncertainty: how are risk-aversion and real option values related to each other?.- Climate change, sustainable development and risk: realizing a financial fund within the TEM model as an economic and business opportunity.- Current evaluation practice of the Clean Development Mechanism.- Sustainable development, the Clean Development Mechanism, and business accounting.- Risk management in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) - the potential of sustainability.- Economic and social risks associated with implementing CDM projects among SME - a case study of foundry industry in India.- Adaptation: corporate responses to climate change.- Developments in corporate responses to climate change within the past decade.- Impacts of climate change on the electricity sector and possible adaptation measures.- Modelling impacts of climate change policy uncertainty on power investment.- Reputational impact of businesses' compliance strategies under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.- Prudence, profit and the perfect storm: climate change risk and fiduciary duty of directors.- Business risks and opportunities from climate change in large developing countries - a case study focusing on China.