Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012: Architecture, Agency and Adaptation

by Edited by Frank Biermann , Philipp Pattberg , Fariborz Zelli

• ISBN13: 9780521190114
• ISBN10: 0521190118
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A cutting-edge assessment of policy options for future global climate governance, written by a team of leading experts from the European Union and developing countries. Global climate governance is at a crossroads. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was merely a first step, and its core commitments expire in 2012. This book addresses three questions which will be central to any new climate agreement. What is the most effective overall legal and institutional architecture for successful and equitable climate politics? What role should non-state actors play, including multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, public-private partnerships and market mechanisms in general? How can we deal with the growing challenge of adapting our existing institutions to a substantially warmer world? This important resource offers policy practitioners in-depth qualitative and quantitative assessments of the costs and benefits of various policy options, and also offers academics from wide-ranging disciplines insight into innovative interdisciplinary approaches towards international climate negotiations.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

List of abbreviations

Global climate governance beyond 2010: an introduction

Architecture

The architecture of global climate governance: setting the stage

The consequences of a fragmented climate change governance architecture: a policy appraisal

Environmental effectiveness and economic consequences of fragmented versus universal regimes: what can we learn from model studies?

Developing the international carbon market beyond 2012: options and the cost of delay

The overlap between the UN climate regime and the World Trade Organization: lessons for climate governance beyond 2012

An architecture for long-term climate change: North-South cooperation based on equity and common but differentiated responsibilities

Shaping the architecture of future climate governance: perspectives from the South

Agency

Agency in global climate governance: setting the stage

The role and relevance of networked climate governance

Carbon market governance beyond the public-private divide

A staged sectoral approach for climate mitigation

Technological change and the role of non-state actors

Adaptation

Global adaptation governance: setting the stage

Costs, benefits and interlinkages between adaptation and mitigation

Global adaptation governance: the case of protecting climate refugees

Global adaptation governance beyond 2012: developing country perspectives

Shaping future adaptation governance: perspectives from the poorest of the poor

Conclusions: options for effective climate governance beyond 2012

Index

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