This volume, published on the eve of the crucial Kyoto Conference on Climate Change of December 1997, is designed to aid policy makers in coming to decisions that will affect the world's economy and its environment for years to come. It is also intended to serve as a ready reference for readers concerned with the vital issues of climate change. Arranged in three readable sections, the book opens with the "IEA Statement on the Energy Dimension of Climate Change." It goes on to offer the results of the International Energy Agency's 1996 World Energy Outlook, which foresees global carbon dioxide emissions growing by 50% from 1990 to 2010. Although IEA does not take a particular position on plans or targets, it emphasizes that future policies will have to me much more effective than past ones if carbon dioxide emissions are to be reduced below 1990 levels over the coming 13 years. On the positive side, Energy and Climate Change argues that future technologies will permit positive change in the long run, as new and more climate friendly power plants, industrial processes, buildings, vehicles, and equipment replace existing ones. It suggests ways in which developed and developing countries could cooperate closely in the fight against undesirable and unpredictable changes in our climate.