@article{737615,
      recid = {737615},
      author = {Schapiro, Mark,},
      title = {Carbon shock : a tale of risk and calculus on the front  lines of the disrupted global economy, how carbon is  changing the cost of everything /},
      pages = {xix, 216 pages ;},
      abstract = {In Carbon Shock, veteran journalist Mark Schapiro takes  readers on a journey into a world where the same chaotic  forces reshaping our natural world are also transforming  the economy, playing havoc with corporate calculations,  shifting economic and political power, and upending our  understanding of the real risks, costs, and possibilities  of what lies ahead. In this ever-changing world,  carbon--the stand-in for all greenhouse gases--rules, and  disrupts, and calls upon us to seek new ways to reduce it  while factoring it into nearly every long-term financial  plan we have. But how? From the jungles of the Amazon to  the farms in California's Central Valley, from 'greening'  cities like Pittsburgh to rising powerhouses like China,  from the oil-splattered beaches of Spain to carbon-trading  desks in London, Schapiro deftly explores the key axis  points of change. For almost two decades, global climate  talks have focused on how to make polluters pay for the  carbon they emit. It remains an unfolding financial  mystery: What are the costs? Who will pay for them? Who do  you pay? How do you pay? And what are the potential  impacts? The answers to these questions, and more, are  crucial to understanding, if not shaping, the coming  decade. Carbon Shock evokes a world in which the parameters  of our understanding are shifting--on a scale even more  monumental than how the digital revolution transformed  financial decision-making--toward a slow but steady  acknowledgement of the costs and consequences of climate  change. It also offers a critical new perspective as global  leaders gear up for the next round of climate talks in  2015.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/737615},
}