Low-Carbon Development: Latin American Responses to Climate Change

Produced by the staff of The World Bank's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and serving as a companion volume to Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change, this report examines major threats posed by climate change to the economies, societies, and biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean region (LCR). An overview of global climate change issues is followed by chapters exploring the likely physical and economic impacts on the LCR; adaptation of human and natural systems in the LCR, and ways that regional and international policies and institutions can facilitate the process; strategies for creating equitable and efficient mitigation efforts for developing countries; the pattern of the LCR's greenhouse gas emissions and the underlying economic factors producing that pattern; and concrete, cost-effective options that LCR countries have to reduce emissions. For policy makers, civil society organizations, and researchers in climate change. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)