Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement

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

• ISBN13: 9780521129527
• ISBN10: 0521129524
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is a global, multi-disciplinary effort intended to help identify the key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for addressing the threat of climate change. It has commissioned leading scholars to examine a uniquely wide range of core issues that must be addressed if the world is to reach an effective agreement on a successor regime to the Kyoto Protocol. The purpose of the project is not to become an advocate for any single policy but to present the best possible information and analysis on the full range of options concerning mitigation, adaptation, technology, and finance. The detailed findings of the Harvard Project are reported in this volume, which contains twenty-seven specially commissioned chapters. A companion volume summarizing the main findings of this research is published separately as Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Summary for Policymakers.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Alternative International Policy Architectures

A proposal for specific formulas and emission targets for all countries in all decades

EU emission trading scheme: a prototype global system?

Linkage of tradable permit systems in international climate policy architecture

The case for charges on greenhouse gas emissions

Towards a global compact for managing climate change

A sectoral approach as an option for a post-Kyoto framework

A portfolio system of climate treaties

Negotiation, Assessment, and Compliance

How to negotiate and update climate agreements

Metrics for evaluating policy commitments in a fragmented world: the challenges of equity and integrity

Justice and climate change

Toward a post-Kyoto climate change architecture: a political analysis

The Role and Means of Technology Transfer

International climate technology strategies

Resource transfers to developing countries: improving and expanding greenhouse gas offsets

Possible development of a technology clean development mechanism in a post-2012 regime

Global Climate Policy and International Trade

Global environmental policy and global trade policy

Kyoto's successor

Economic Development, Adaptation, and Deforestation

Reconciling human development and climate protection

What do we expect from an international climate agreement? A low-income country perspective

Climate accession deals for taming growth of greenhouse gases in developing countries

Policies for developing country engagement

International forest carbon sequestration in a post-Kyoto agreement

Modeling Impacts of Alternative Allocations of Responsibility

A quantitative and comparative assessment of architectures for agreement

Sharing the burden of GHG reductions

Technology and international climate policy

Revised emissions growth projections for China: why post-Kyoto climate policy must look east

Expecting the unexpected: macroeconomic volatility and climate policy

Synthesis and Conclusion

Epilogue: implementing architectures for agreement

A synthesis from the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Glossary and abbreviations

Index

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