Architectures for agreement : addressing global climate change in the post-Kyoto world

Full Title:

Architectures for agreement : addressing global climate change in the post-Kyoto world

Other Author:

Aldy, Joseph E.
Stavins, Robert N.

Statement of Responsibility:

edited by Joseph E. Aldy, and Robert N. Stavins

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• Table of contents

Language:

English

Description:

xxvii, 380 p.

Summary:

With increasing greenhouse gas emissions, we are embarked on an unprecedented experiment with an uncertain outcome for the future of the planet. The Kyoto Protocol...

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With increasing greenhouse gas emissions, we are embarked on an unprecedented experiment with an uncertain outcome for the future of the planet. The Kyoto Protocol serves as an initial step through 2012 to mitigate the threats posed by global climate change. A second step is needed, and policy-makers, scholars, business people, and environmentalists have begun debating the structure of the successor to the Kyoto agreement. Written by a team of leading scholars in economics, law, and international relations, this book contributes to this debate by examining the merits of six alternative international architectures for global climate policy. Architectures for Agreement offers the reader a uniquely wide-ranging menu of options for post-Kyoto climate policy, with a concern throughout to learn from past experience in order to maximize opportunities for future success in the real, 'second-best' world. It will be an essential reference for scholars, policy-makers, and students interested in climate policy.

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Contents:

• List of figures • List of tables • Foreword • 1. Introduction • Part I. Targets and Timetables: • 2. Formulas for quantitative emission...

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• List of figures • List of tables • Foreword • 1. Introduction • Part I. Targets and Timetables: • 2. Formulas for quantitative emission targets • 2.1 Targets and timetables: good policy but bad politics? • 2.2 Incentives and meta-architecture • 3. Graduation and deepening • 3.1 Alternatives to Kyoto: the case for a carbon tax • 3.2 Beyond graduation and deepening: towards cosmopolitan scholarship • Part II. Targets and Timetables: • 4. Fragmented carbon markets and reluctant nations: implications for the design of effective architectures • 4.1 Incentives and institutions: a bottom-up approach to climate policy • 4.2 The whole and the sum of its parts: comments on David Victor's 'Fragmented Carbon Markets and Reluctant Nations' • 5. Credible foundation for long-term international cooperation • 5.1 Commentary on McKibbin and Wilcoxen • 5.2 Commentary on McKibbin and Wilcoxen • Part III. Coordinated and Unilateral Policies: • 6. A multi-track climate treaty system • 6.1 Beyond Kyoto: learning from the Montreal protocol • 6.2 Climate Favela: a comment on Barrett • 7. Practical global climate policy • 7.1 Comment on Pizer • 7.2 Comments on practical global climate policy • Part IV. Synthesis and Conclusion: • 8. Epilogue Thomas Schelling • 9. Lessons for the international policy community • Index.

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Publisher & Date:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Date of Publication:

2007

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Classification:

D 11.2

ISBN:

9780521871631 (hbk)
9780521692175 (pbk)
9780511368233 (ebook)