Climate Change and Carbon Markets: Late or Too Late?
暫譯: 氣候變遷與碳市場：已遲或太遲？

Dr John Ure is an economist who now devotes his research to the pressing issues of climate change, global warming and environmental protection. During the 1990s he was Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, and previously Senior Lecturer at the University of East London, UK. While at HKU he was also director of the Technology Research Project (TRP) with the main focus of his research and publication (including two books on Telecoms in Asia) being on the digitalisation and spread of telecommunications across the Asia Pacific region, and its role in economic and social development. In the 2000s he founded a research consultancy in Singapore, and in 2024 lived in California to focus upon research and writing on the UN sustainable development goals, and then specifically on the challenges of climate change and carbon abatement. Hence this book which provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive deep dive into the probabilistic nature of climate change models, the pathways towards carbon abatement, the economics of climate change, public and private approaches to policies and carbon markets, and crucially, the financing of carbon abatement projects and the global need for a redirection of policies, including the need for an International Green Bank focused exclusively upon the Global South. He now lives with his wife in Hong Kong and in the Philippines where he continues his research and consultancy work.

約翰·尤爾博士是一位經濟學家，現在專注於氣候變遷、全球暖化和環境保護等緊迫議題的研究。在1990年代，他曾擔任香港大學的副教授，並且之前在英國東倫敦大學擔任高級講師。在香港大學期間，他還擔任科技研究計畫（Technology Research Project, TRP）的主任，主要研究和出版的重點（包括兩本關於亞洲電信的書籍）是亞太地區電信的數位化及其擴展，以及其在經濟和社會發展中的角色。在2000年代，他在新加坡創立了一家研究顧問公司，並於2024年移居加州，專注於有關聯合國可持續發展目標的研究和寫作，然後特別針對氣候變遷和碳減排的挑戰。因此，這本書提供了對氣候變遷模型的概率性質、碳減排的途徑、氣候變遷的經濟學、公共和私營部門對政策和碳市場的應對，以及碳減排項目的融資和全球政策重定向需求的廣泛而全面的深入探討，特別是需要一個專注於全球南方的國際綠色銀行。他現在與妻子居住在香港和菲律賓，繼續進行他的研究和顧問工作。