Architectures for agreement : addressing global climate change in the post-Kyoto world / edited by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldy, Joseph E.

Stavins, R. N. (Robert N.), 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Climatic changes.

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection--International cooperation.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, we have 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 the debate by examining the merits of six alternative international architectures for global climate policy. Architectures for Agreement offers the reader a 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 is an essential reference for scholars, policy-makers, and students interested in climate policy.

Contents:

Foreword / Lawrence Summers

1. Introduction : international policy architecture for global climate change / Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. 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 : toward cosmopolitan scholarship / Joyeeta Gupta

Part II Harmonized domestic actions

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 / Sheila M. Olmstead

5. A credible foundation for long-term international cooperation on climate change / Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen

Commentaries on McKibbin and Wilcoxen

5.1 The case for greater flexibility in an international climate change agreement / Richard D. Morgenstern

5.2 Using the development agenda to build climate mitigation support / Jonathan Pershing

Part III Coordinated and unilateral policies

6. A multitrack climate treaty system / Scott Barrett

Commentaries on Barrett

6.1 Beyond Kyoto : learning from the Montreal Protocol / Daniel C. Esty

6.2 Climate favela

Henry D. Jacoby

7. Practical global climate policy / William A. Pizer

Commentaries on Pizer

7.1 Is "practical global development policy" sufficient? / James K. Hammitt

7.2 An auction mechanism in a climate policy architecture / Juan-Pablo Montero

Part IV Synthesis and conclusion

8. Epilogue : architectures for agreement / Thomas Schelling

9. Architectures for an international global climate change agreement : lessons for the policy community / Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521871631

0521871638

9780521692175

0521692172

OCLC:

153555972