| Law and Economics of International Climate Change Policy 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Schwarze, R. (Author), Niles, John O. (Other), Levy, Eric (Other) |
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ISBN: 0792368002 ISBN-13: 9780792368007 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2001 Annotation: The Kyoto Protocol is a landmark international agreement to tackle the problem of global climate change. Most operational details of the Protocol, however, were not decided in Kyoto but deferred to following conferences. This deferral of the details, while probably appropriate to initially reach the agreement, has become a major stepping stone for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. This study elaborates in six essays on some of the most pressing policy problems of the Kyoto Protocol. These are the problems of hot air', the accounting of biological sources and sinks, and the modalities of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). A specific focus of this book is on how the issues of climate change and global sustainable forestry can be linked. The authors develop some new innovative solutions to achieve durability and political acceptability for CDM forest conservation projects, such as escrow account financing and bundling of forest conservation and bioenergy. The sum of fresh insights into up-to-date legal and political problems of the Kyoto Protocol makes this book indispensable for policy makers, negotiators, environmental activists, academics, and anyone involved in post-Kyoto strategies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - Science | Global Warming & Climate Change - Law | Environmental |
| Dewey: 363.738 |
| LCCN: 2001046219 |
| Series: Environment & Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.89 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy. The first period started at the "Earth Summit" of Rio de Janeiro in 1992, where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was opened for signature. The UNFCCC was subsequently signed and ratified by 174 countries, making it one of the most accepted international rd treaties ever. The second period was initiated at the 3 Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the UNFCCC in Kyoto in 1997, which produced the Kyoto Protocol (KP). Till now, eighty-four countries have signed the Kyoto Protocol, but only twelve ratified it. A major reason for this slow ratification is that most operational details of the Kyoto Protocol were not decided in Kyoto but deferred to following conferences. This deferral of the details, while probably appropriate to initially reach an agreement, is a major stepping stone for a speedy ratification of the protocol. National policy makers and their constituencies, who would ultimately bear the cost of Kyoto, are generally not prepared to ratify a treaty that could mean anything, from an unsustainable strict regime of international control of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to an "L-regime" ofloopholes, or from a pure market-based international carbon trading to a regime of huge international carbon tax funds. |