The global development of policy regimes to combat climate change
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The global development of policy regimes to combat climate change
(The tricontinental series on global economic issues, v. 4)
World Scientific, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The year 2015 will be a landmark year for international climate change negotiations. Governments have agreed to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in 2015. The agreement will come into force no later than 2020.This book focuses on the prospects for global agreement, how to encourage compliance with any such agreement and perspectives of key players in the negotiations - the United States, India, China, and the EU. It finds that there is strong commitment to the established UN institutions and processes within which the search for further agreed actions will occur. There are already a myriad of local and regional policies that are helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build mutual confidence. However, the chapters in the book also highlight potential areas of discord. For instance, varying interpretations of the "common but differentiated responsibilities" of developing countries, agreed as part of the UNFCCC, could be a major sticking point for negotiators. When combined with other issues, such as the choice of consumption or production as the basis for mitigation commitments, the appropriate time frame and base date for their measurement and whether level or intensity commitments are to be negotiated, the challenges that need to be overcome are considerable. The authors bring to bear insights from economics, public finance and game theory.
Table of Contents
- Global Development of Policy Regimes to Combat Climate Change (Samuela Bassi and James Rydge)
- The US and Action on Climate Change (Samuela Bassi and Alex Bowen)
- Challenges and Reality: China's Dilemma about the Durban Platform negotiation (WANG Mou, Lian Huishan and ZHOU Yamin)
- Sustainable Growth and Climate Change: Evolution of India's Strategies (R Kattumuri and D Ravindranath)
- After Copenhagen and the Economic Crisis: Does the EU Need to Go Back to the Drawing Board? (Christian Egenhofer)
- The Scope for "Green Growth" and a New Technological Revolution (Alex Bowen)
- Negotiating to Avoid "Dangerous" Climate Change (Scott Barrett)
- Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation (Shurojit Chatterji, Sayantan Ghosal, Sean Walsh and John Whalley)
- Compliance Mechanisms in Global Climate Regimes: Kyoto and Post-Kyoto (Sean Walsh and John Whalley).
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