Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World

by Edited by Joseph E. Aldy , Robert N. Stavins

• ISBN13: 9780521692175
• ISBN10: 0521692172
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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 serves as an initial step through 2012 to mitigate the threats posed by global climate change but policy-makers, scholars, businessmen, 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 climate policy.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. x
List of tables	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xii
Foreword	p. xviii
Introduction: International policy architecture for global climate change	p. 1
Targets and timetables
Formulas for quantitative emission targets	p. 31
Commentaries on Frankel
Targets and timetables: good policy but bad politics?	p. 57
Incentives and meta-architecture	p. 67
Graduation and deepening	p. 81
Commentaries on Michaelowa
Alternatives to Kyoto: the case for a carbon tax	p. 105
Beyond graduation and deepening: toward cosmopolitan scholarship	p. 116
Harmonized domestic actions
Fragmented carbon markets and reluctant nations: implications for the design of effective architectures	p. 133
Commentaries on Victor
Incentives and institutions: a bottom-up approach to climate policy	p. 161
The whole and the sum of its parts	p. 173
A credible foundation for long-term international cooperation on climate change	p. 185
Commentaries on McKibbin and Wilcoxen
The case for greater flexibility in an international climate change agreement	p. 209
Using the development agenda to build climate mitigation support	p. 220
Coordinated and unilateral policies
A multitrack climate treaty system	p. 237
Commentaries on Barrett
Beyond Kyoto: learning from the Montreal Protocol	p. 260
Climate favela	p. 270
Practical global climate policy	p. 280
Commentaries on Pizer
Is "practical global climate policy" sufficient?	p. 315
An auction mechanism in a climate policy architecture	p. 327
Synthesis and conclusion
Epilogue: Architectures for agreement	p. 343
Architectures for an international global climate change agreement: lessons for the policy community	p. 350
Glossary and abbreviations	p. 368
Index	p. 375
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