Driving climate change : cutting carbon from transportation
by
 
Sperling, Daniel.

Title
Driving climate change : cutting carbon from transportation

Author
Sperling, Daniel.

ISBN
9780123694959

Publication Information
Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, c2007.

Physical Description
xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note
Chapters based on presentations and discussions at the Tenth Biennial Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Energy, August 23-26, 2005, in Pacific Grove, California.

Contents
Introduction and overview / Peaking of world oil production and its mitigation / Toward a policy agenda for climate change : changing technologies and fuels and the changing value of energy / Coordinated policy measures for reducing the fuel use of the U.S. light duty vehicle fleet / Carbon burdens from new car sales in the United States / Reducing vehicle emissions through cap-and-trade schemes / North American feebate analysis model / Reducing growth in vehicle miles traveled : can we really pull it off? / International comparison of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles / Reducing transport-related greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries : the role of the global environmental facility / What multilateral banks (and other donors) can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : a case study of Latin America and the Caribbean / From public understanding to public policy : public views on energy, technology and climate science in the United States / Narrative self-identity and societal goals : automotive fuel economy and global warming policy / Lost in option space : risk partitioning to guide climate and energy policy / Toward a transportation policy agenda for climate change

Subject Term
Transportation -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
 
Motor vehicles -- Fuel consumption -- Congresses.
 
Climatic changes -- Congresses.
 
Global warming -- Prevention -- Congresses.

Added Author
Sperling, Daniel.
 
Cannon, James Spencer, 1949-

Added Conference Author
Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Energy (2005 : Pacific Grove, Calif.)


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