Architectures for Agreement (eBook, PDF)

Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World
Redaktion: Aldy, Joseph E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511368233
• Artikelnr.: 38206248

Autorenporträt

Joe Aldy is a Fellow in the Energy and Natural Resources Division at Resources for the Future, Washington D.C.
Robert Stavins is Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at Harvard University. He is also Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group in the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Environmental Economics Program, both at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; Foreword Lawrence Summers; 1. Introduction
Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins; Part I. Targets and Timetables: 2. Formulas
for quantitative emission targets Jeffrey Frankel; Commentaries on Frankel:
2.1 Targets and timetables: good policy but bad politics? Daniel Bodansky;
2.2 Incentives and meta-architecture Jonathan B. Wiener; 3. Graduation and
deepening Axel Michaelowa; Commentaries on Michaelowa: 3.1 Alternatives to
Kyoto: the case for a carbon tax Richard N. Cooper; 3.2 Beyond graduation
and deepening: towards cosmopolitan scholarship Joyeeta Gupta; Part II.
Targets and Timetables: 4. Fragmented carbon markets and reluctant nations:
implications for the design of effective architectures David G. Victor;
Commentaries on Victor: 4.1 Incentives and institutions: a bottom-up
approach to climate policy Carlo Carraro; 4.2 The whole and the sum of its
parts: comments on David Victor's 'Fragmented Carbon Markets and Reluctant
Nations' Sheila M. Olmstead; 5. Credible foundation for long-term
international cooperation Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen;
Commentaries on McKibbin and Wilcoxen: 5.1 Commentary on McKibbin and
Wilcoxen Richard Morgenstern; 5.2 Commentary on McKibbin and Wilcoxen
Jonathan Pershing; Part III. Coordinated and Unilateral Policies: 6. A
multi-track climate treaty system Scott Barrett; Commentaries on Barrett:
6.1 Beyond Kyoto: learning from the Montreal protocol Daniel C. Esty; 6.2
Climate Favela: a comment on Barrett Henry D. Jacoby; 7. Practical global
climate policy William A. Pizer; Commentary on Pizer: 7.1 Comment on Pizer
James A. Hammitt; 7.2 Comments on practical global climate policy
Juan-Pablo Montero; Part IV. Synthesis and Conclusion: 8. Epilogue Thomas
Schelling; 9. Lessons for the international policy community Joseph Aldy
and Robert Stavins; Index.

---

From the contents:
List of figures; List of tables; Foreword Lawrence Summers; 1. Introduction Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins; Part I. Targets and Timetables: 2. Formulas for quantitative emission targets Jeffrey Frankel; Commentaries on Frankel: 2.1 Targets and timetables: good policy but bad politics? Daniel Bodansky; 2.2 Incentives and meta-architecture Jonathan B. Wiener; 3. Graduation and deepening Axel Michaelowa; Commentaries on Michaelowa: 3.1 Alternatives to Kyoto: the case for a carbon tax Richard N. Cooper; 3.2 Beyond graduation and deepening: towards cosmopolitan scholarship Joyeeta Gupta; Part II. Targets and Timetables: 4. Fragmented carbon markets and reluctant nations: implications for the design of effective architectures David G. Victor; Commentaries on Victor: 4.1 Incentives and institutions: a bottom-up approach to climate policy Carlo Carraro; 4.2 The whole and the sum of its parts: comments on David Victor's'Fragmented Carbon Markets and Reluctant Nations'Sheila M. Olmstead; 5. Credible foundation for long-term international cooperation Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen; Commentaries on McKibbin and Wilcoxen: 5.1 Commentary on McKibbin and Wilcoxen Richard Morgenstern; 5.2 Commentary on McKibbin and Wilcoxen Jonathan Pershing; Part III. Coordinated and Unilateral Policies: 6. A multi-track climate treaty system Scott Barrett; Commentaries on Barrett: 6.1 Beyond Kyoto: learning from the Montreal protocol Daniel C. Esty; 6.2 Climate Favela: a comment on Barrett Henry D. Jacoby; 7. Practical global climate policy William A. Pizer; Commentary on Pizer: 7.1 Comment on Pizer James A. Hammitt; 7.2 Comments on practical global climate policy Juan-Pablo Montero; Part IV. Synthesis and Conclusion: 8. Epilogue Thomas Schelling; 9. Lessons for the international policy com

Rezensionen

'The Kyoto Protocol was at best an imperfect and incomplete first step toward an effective response to the enormously difficult problem of climate change, which is characterized by huge stakes, great uncertainties, global scope, and a time-scale measured in decades or centuries. In this important volume, Joseph Aldy, Robert Stavins, and a host of distinguished contributors provide a thoughtful exploration of a range of alternative post-Kyoto top-down and bottom-up regimes and their implications. This book should be read by everyone who takes climate change seriously as a policy problem.' Richard Schmalensee, John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and Professor of Economics and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology