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"SAVING KYOTO" by GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY

"In the world of economic theory, Graciela Chichilnisky is an A-list star."

"Washington Post"

" Graciela Chichilnisky’s leadership in the global community, in producing policies to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global climate change, has been revolutionary. "

"Jay Inslee, Member of the United States House of Representatives"

Synopsis

For the first time in recorded history, humans are altering the planet in ways that endanger its basic life-support systems. Human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have changed the Earth’s atmosphere, unleashing potentially catastrophic climate changes

Saving Kyoto focuses on international efforts to confront the crisis. It provides a colorful overview of the history of global climate negotiations, explaining why international cooperation between poor and rich nations has become critical.

Detailing how the Kyoto Protocol and its global carbon market were created, the debates and conflicts leading up to its signing in 1997 and the main protagonists behind its design and implementation, the book explains the importance of the carbon market – potentially the largest commodity market in the world – from an insider’s perspective.

Saving Kyoto is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how and why the Kyoto Protocol can resolve the climate crisis and overcome the global income divide.

Written by Graciela Chichilinsky, the world-renowned economist whose proposal of a global carbon market formed an integral part of the Kyoto Protocol, and Kristen A. Sheeran, Executive Director of Economics for Equity and the Environment, a worldwide network of economists working for environmental protection, this is a book about the most important international agreement the world has ever known – Kyoto. In clear and passionate terms, it argues that the new political and economic global structures described in the Kyoto Protocol are essential if humankind is to avert the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change.

Taking the reader behind the scenes of the often heated negotiations, in which Chichilnisky played a vital role, Saving Kyoto explains just why the agreement for international cooperation forged at Kyoto in 1997 and due to expire in 2012 matters so much. The authors demonstrate how the carbon market can protect the security of richer countries while not penalizing the development of poorer countries, helping to create wealth and foster the development of green technologies.

Kyoto’s simple idea, comprehensively explained, has the potential to halt climate change and narrow the gap between rich and poor, to the benefit of everyone on the planet.

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In The Press

"Graciela Chichilnisky on Climate Change", interview for OurBook, February 1, 2010.

"Who Needs a Carbon Market?" by Graciela Chichilnisky, Environmental Leader, January 13, 2010.

"Negative Carbon: Why is it not on the table?" by Jack Hidary, Huffington Post, December 12, 2009.

"Carbon Market Maker", by Frances Denmark, Institutional Investor, November 20, 2009.

"SAVING KYOTO: An Insider's Guide to the Kyoto Protocol", Earth Times, November 19, 2009.

"Graciela Chichilnisky: A Climate Deal through Compensation", by Howard Silverman, People and Place, November 16, 2009.

"Science Weekly: Top 10 myths of ecological living", Interview with Graciela Chichilnisky (begins at 31:50), The Gaurdian, November 16, 2009.

"Pollution taxes vs emissions trading", by D. Murali, The Hindu, November 13, 2009.

"Chichilnisky on how to solve 'carbon leakage' with carbon trading", by Kate

Mackenzie,Financial Times, November 9, 2009.

"Financial Innovations & Carbon Markets", by Graciela Chichilnisky, UN Chronicle, No. 3&4, 2009.

"Saving Kyoto", by Graciela Chichilnisky, China Dialog, November 05, 2009.

"Kyoto or Bust", by Graciela Chichilnisky, The Big Issue, November 2-8, 2009.

"Nothing will happen at Copenhagen until the 11� hour", by Graciela Chichilnisky,Ecologist, October 27, 2009.

"Countdown to Copenhagen", interview with Graciela Chichilnisky, BBC Radio, October 26, 2009. (appears at min 20 and min 25)

"Does Copenhagen matter?", by Graciela Chichilnisky, James Lovelock, Bjorn Lomborg, Zac Goldsmith, et al., Prospect Magazine Issue 164, October 21, 2009.

"Foot in carbon trading door for small nations?", by Graciela Chichilnisky, Reuters AlertNet, October 21, 2009.

"Cr�er un march� du carbone n�gatif", by Etienne Dubuis, Le Temps, October 20, 2009.

"Negative carbon to benefit poorest nations?", by Laurie Goering, Reuters AlertNet, October 14, 2009.

"Forward Trading: A proposal to end the standoff between the U.S. and China on climate change", by Graciela Chichilnisky, Time Magazine, Monday, October 5, 2009

'Magic' Markets lack credibility, by Anthony Giddens, Times Higher Education, October 1, 2009. Page 1, Page 2

Book of the Month Award, Geographical, October 2009

"Saving Kyoto", Interview with Graciela Chichilnisky, New Statesman, September 28, 2009

�Poor nations CO2 curbs strengthen hand in U.N. talks�, by David Fogarty and Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, September 17, 2009.

"Surviving Kyoto's 'do or die' summit", by Graciela Chichilnisky, BBC News, September 15, 2009

Press release for Saving Kyoto, FMcM, September 15, 2009.

Book for the week: Saving Kyoto - insider's guide to the Protocol. Environmental Times, September 11, 2009.

"U.S. Like an 'Addict in Denial, 'Say Authors of 'Saving Kyoto'", by Mathew Carr,Bloomberg News, September 2, 2009.

"Taming Emissions", by Chronis Polychroniou, Epsilon, Issue 956, pp, 26-37, August 9, 2009. Greek version. English Translation.