ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a broad perspective on climate policies and organisations of industry. It discusses the bottom-up initiatives to combat climate change of five different organisations. The book introduces the playing field for greenhouse gas policies at the corporate level. It compares the advocacy activities of the business and environmental communities in the multilateral climate change negotiations. The book describes a project undertaken by the Partnership for Climate Action to compare the range of greenhouse gas reduction programmes across the companies, which will be of interest to other companies considering moving in this direction. It presents the potentials and pitfalls of Joint Implementation. The book reviews a case study of a US electric company-sponsored forestry project in Southeast Asia, which began in 1992, as an example of an early corporate response to climate change.
