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This volume represents a contribution to the growing literature on
international and comparative climate change policy. The product of
a research project of the International Bar Association Section on
Energy and Natural Resources Law (SERL), it brings together leading
academic lawyers from around the world, who provide detailed
perspectives on what individual countries are doing (or, in some
cases, not doing) to address the climate change problem. The book
illustrates the range of national actions to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, including incentives for renewable energy sources,
forestry activities, voluntary agreements with industry, and
emissions trading schemes. By including experts from both
industrialized and developing countries, it also highlights the
very differing perspectives that must be addressed in any
international climate change regime, whether under Kyoto or a
successor. These detailed case studies provide a rich array of
material, which should be of significant interest not only to
academic and business lawyers, but also to economists and energy
experts, government officials, and NGOs.
The Section on Business Law of the International Bar Association is
greatly indebted to the Editor, J. Michael Robinson and to John
Gauntlett, the Chairman of the Committee on Issues and Trading in
Securities, and his Vice Chairmen, Blaise Pasztory, Robert Briner
and the members of the Committee who have contributed, for their
joint efforts in preparing this ftrst book of their committee. It
will make a valuable addition to the libraries of all practising
lawyers because it has been written by practising lawyers, with the
knowledge and experience of their own daily work and the
understanding of what a practi tioner is looking for. I am
confident that this book will prove of real assistance to
practitioners world-wide, as have previous publications of other
Committees of the Section on Business Law. I wish it great success.
I hope that you may wish to join the Section on Business Law and
thereby make contact and work with lawyers with similar interests
in commercial law. WALTER OPPENHOF Chairman of the Section on
Business Law XI Editor's Introduction I have great pleasure in
presenting reports from fourteen countries. In the best tradition
of many institutions of higher learning which trace their origins
to some medieval ale house, this project has its genesis in a bar."
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