Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Summary for Policymakers

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

• ISBN13: 9780521138000
• ISBN10: 0521138000
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. It draws upon leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and non-governmental organizations from around the world to construct a small set of promising policy frameworks and then disseminate and discuss the design elements and frameworks with decision-makers. The Project is directed by Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. For more information, see the Project's website: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/climate

Table of Contents

International Advisory Board, Harvard Environmental Economics Program

Faculty Steering Committee, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Management, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

List of contributors

Foreword

Introduction and Overview

Lessons for the International Policy Community

References

Summaries of research initiatives, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Alternative International Policy Architectures

An elaborated proposal for global climate policy architecture: specific formulas and emission targets for all countries in all decades

The 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

Sectoral approaches to a post-Kyoto international climate policy 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

Mitigation through resource transfers to developing countries: expanding greenhouse gas offsets

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

Global Climate Policy and International Trade

Global environment and trade policy

A proposal for the design of the successor to the Kyoto protocol

Economic Development, Adaptation, and Deforestation

Reconciling human development and climate protection: a multi-stage hybrid climate policy architecture

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

Climate accession deals: new strategies 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

Modeling economic impacts of alternative international climate policy architectures: a quantitative and comparative assessment of architectures for agreement

Sharing the burden of GHG reductions

When technology and climate policy meet: energy technology in an international policy context

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

Expecting the unexpected: macroeconomic volatility and climate policy

Epilogue

Epilogue: implementing architectures for agreement

Selected list of individuals consulted, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Workshops and conferences, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Glossary and abbreviations

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