I: Measuring responsibility; 1: Introduction; 2: The basics of greenhouse gas indices; 3: Assessing emissions: five approaches compared; 4: Who pays (to solve the problem and how much)?; II: Resource transfers; 5: North-South carbon abatement costs; 6: North-South transfer; 7: Insuring against sea level rise; III: National greenhouse gas reduction cost curves; 8: Integrating ecology and economy in India; 9: Carbon abatement potential in West Africa; 10: Abatement of carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil; 11: Thailand's demand side management initiative: a practical response to global warming; 12: Carbon abatement in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States; 13: Greenhouse gas emission abatement in Australia; IV: Conclusion; 14: Constructing a global greenhouse regime