ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses programs that are designed to address various aspects of climate change. It explains several policy initiatives and related measures that can begin to address climate change in a collective action framework. Climate change has an impact on several additional factors that threaten human security: food (in)security, natural disasters, infectious disease, and conflict. A recent review of global population trends and the environment has identified human activity in the form of energy consumption and land consumption as the key contributor to climate change. The goals of carbon emission reduction are stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at levels that would prevent damage to the climate system, and to be cost-effective as the system transitions away from heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has become a key financial market; in some ways, "the business of climate has now become more important than politics of climate".
