{"product_id":"9781925501407","title":"CLIMATE CHANGE: Treaties and Policies in the Trump era","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlan Moran has been a prominent writer on regulatory matters for thirty years. He was the inaugural head of the Australian governments’ regulatory review office and researched the issues in “think tanks”. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking outside and within the Victorian Government, he was a major participant in the disaggregation of that state’s monopoly electricity business into a dozen independent parts and in the creation of what later became the National Electricity Market. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Moran has written many books and articles on the interface between climate change, energy and economic well-being. These include editing and contributing to the 2015 best seller,\u003cem\u003e Climate Change: the facts.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClimate Change: treaties and policies in the Trump era, is an examination of: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The setting of the climate change agenda \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Its position in the international arena where nations have agreed to treaties and agreements that have increasingly placed pressures on governments to take actions in conformance with their provisions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The developments leading to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which incorporated governments’ “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions” (INDCs) on abatement of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• The costs nations are actually and prospectively incurring in meeting their INDCs and in other measures designed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement and other nations’ responses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book foreshadows the collapse of the Paris agreement and gradual, if not abrupt, dismantling of the costly measures it entails – primarily involving forcing consumers to subsidise wind and solar energy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056867590384,"sku":"9781925501407","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925501407_p0.jpg?v=1763636516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925501407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}