edited by Kheng-Lian Koh (Asia Pacific Centre of Environmental Law, National University of Singapore), Lin Heng Lye (Asia Pacific Centre of Environmental Law, National University of Singapore), & Jolene Lin (Asia Pacific Centre of Environmental Law, National University of Singapore)

Table of Contents (91k)
Foreword (37k)
Preface (37k)
Chapter 1: Climate Disruption: Remaking the Agenda of Meas in Asia and the World (138k)

Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World focuses on responses to climate change in the world's most populous region. This book provides the most comprehensive insight to the climate change discourse within Asia to date by drawing on the diverse disciplines and experience of legal practitioners, climate change consultants, government officials and academics. Individual chapters address issues such as how the various Asian countries — highly disparate in their cultures, socio-economic conditions and political systems — are responding to climate change, the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change, and the effective implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Asia.

• Setting the Stage:
  • Climate Disruption: Remaking the Agenda of MEAs in Asia and the World (N A Robinson)
  • Reframing Global Warming: Toward a Strategic National Planning Framework (S V Valentine)
  • Climate Change — Living in the Anthropocene (J Obbard)
• Clean Development Mechanism (CDM):
  • An Overview of the Clean Development Mechanism in Southeast Asia (J Lin)
  • CDM in China (X Yang & X Wang)
  • Empirial Considerations in the Development of CDM Projects in Asia (W I Y Byun & F H C Chan)
  • Making Markets Work — A Review of CDM Performance and the Need for Reform (C Streck & J Lin)
• Emissions Trading in the European Union and Asia:
  • Regional Framework: The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme — Past, Present and Future (K Deketelaere & M Schurmans)
  • Trends in Carbon Trading: Practical Lessons (A Beatty & E Williams)
• Effective Implementation of the Kyoto in Asia:
  • Singapore's National Climate Change Strategy (K Suresh)
  • Japan: Achieving Its Kyoto Target (H Isozaki)
  • Compliance Under the Kyoto Protocol and Its Implications for the Asian Region (M S Manguiat)
  • Climate Change as a Threat to Peace & Security: Glacial Melting & Human Security in the Himalayas (K Khoday)
  • The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond: A South Asian Perspective (A Gunawansa)
  • Beyond Kyoto: Climate Change Including a Discussion of the AP6 Initiative from the Australian Perspective (M I Jeffery)
  • Protecting Forests to Mitigate Global Climate Change (C streck)