Global climate policy : actors, concepts, and enduring challenges / edited by Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luterbacher, Urs, editor.

Sprinz, Detlef F., editor.

Series:

Global environmental accords

Global environmental accord : strategies for sustainability and institutional innovation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change mitigation--International cooperation.

Climate change mitigation.

Climatic changes.

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

xi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

Summary:

Analyses of the international climate change regime consider the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation. The current international climate change regime has a long history, and it is likely that its evolution will continue, despite such recent setbacks as the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement of 2015. Indeed, the U.S. withdrawal may spur efforts by other members of the international community to strengthen the Paris accord on their own. This volume offers an original contribution to the study of the international political context of climate change over the last three decades, with fresh analyses of the current international climate change regime that consider both the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation. The contributors are leading experts with both academic and policy experience; some are advisors to governments and the Climate Secretariat itself. Their contributions combine substantive evidence with methodological rigor. They discuss such topics as the evolution of the architecture of the climate change regime; different theoretical perspectives; game-theoretical and computer simulation approaches to modeling outcomes and assessing agreements; coordination with other legal regimes; non-state actors; developing and emerging countries; implementation, compliance, and effectiveness of agreements; and the challenges of climate change mitigation after the Paris Agreement. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword

Our Approach / Urs Luterbacher

The Evolution and Governance Architecture of the United Nations Climate Change Regime / Daniel Bodansky and Lavanya Rajamani

International Relations Theories and Climate Change Politics / Michaël Aklin

Cooperation on Climate Change : Insights from Game Theory / Frank Grundig, Jon Hovi, and Hugh Ward

Computational Models, Global Climate Change, and Policy / Thierry Bréchet and Urs Luterbacher

Environmental Protection, Differentiated Responsibility, and World Trade : Making Room for Climate Action / Urs Luterbacher, Carla Norrlog, and Jorge E. Vin̋uales

Major Countries / Detlef F. Sprinz, Guri Bang, Lars Brückner, and Yasuko Kameyama

Nonstate Actors in International Policy Making : The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond / Tora Skodvin

Business / Matthew Paterson

Equity and Development : Developing Countries in the International Climate Negotiations / Katharina Michaelowa and Axel Michaelowa

Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness of Policies and Institutions / Jon Hovi and Arild Underdal

Our Conclusions / Detlef F. Sprinz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262037921

0262037920

9780262535342

0262535343

OCLC:

1002295987

Publisher Number:

99978981954

14769682