Towards a workable and effective climate regime

Towards a workable and effective climate regime / edited by Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro and Jaime de Melo. CEPR Press, 2015, 548 p. (A VoxEU.org Book)

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Présentation (source Vox) :

This year, for the first time ever, nearly all of the world’s countries are making pledges to help limit future climate change. As of 1 October, 147 countries (representing about 85% of global emissions) have submitted their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. These pledges, if carried out in full, are expected to lower emissions relative to the ‘business as usual’ forecast. However, they are not expected to prevent emissions from increasing above today’s level through 2030. To meet the global goal of limiting mean global temperature change to 2°C relative to the pre-industrial level, much more will need to be done after 2030. Eventually, emissions will have to fall to zero worldwide – either that, or countries will need to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. This new Vox eBook looks into what needs to be done to build a climate regime that is both workable and effective.

Contents :

Introduction / Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro and Jaime de Melo

PART I: The Challenge

• Implications of climate science for negotiators / Thomas F. Stocker
• Beyond the 2°C limit: Facing the economic and institutional challenges / Ottmar Edenhofer, Susanne Kadner, Christoph von Stechow and Jan Minx
• The state of climate negotiations / Brian P. Flannery

PART II: Views from Different Parts of the World

• A view from Africa / Alemu Mekonnen
• A view from China / Teng Fei
• A view from India / E. Somanathan
• The view from different parts of the world: A view from Japan / Mitsutsune Yamaguchi and Keigo Akimoto
• A view from Europe / Roger Guesnerie
• A view from the United States / Matthew J. Kotchen

PART III: Architecture and Governance

• Legally binding versus non-legally binding instruments / Daniel Bodansky
• Comparing emission mitigation pledges: Metrics and institutions / Joseph E. Aldy and William A. Pizer
• Towards an effective system of monitoring, reporting, and verification / Jonathan B. Wiener
• After the failure of top-down mandates: The role of experimental governance in climate change policy / Robert O. Keohane and David G. Victor
• A building blocks strategy for global climate change / Richard B. Stewart, Michael Oppenheimer and Bryce Rudyk
• Climate change policies and the WTO: Greening the GATT, revisited / Petros C. Mavroidis and Jaime de Melo

PART IV: Policy Options

• The regulatory approach in US climate mitigation policy / Dallas Burtraw
• Pricing carbon: The challenges / Thomas Sterner and Gunnar Köhlin
• Taxing carbon: Current state of play and prospects for future developments / Xueman Wang and Maja Murisic
• Linkage of regional, national, and sub-national policies in a future international climate agreement / Robert N. Stavins
• Options for avoiding carbon leakage / Carolyn Fischer

PART V: Technology Options

• International cooperation in advancing energy technologies for deep decarbonisation / Michael Toman
• The role of renewables in the pathway towards decarbonisation / Valentina Bosetti
• Carbon capture and storage: Promise or delusion? / Massimo Tavoni
• The alternatives to unconstrained climate change: Emission reductions versus carbon and solar geoengineering / Scott Barrett and Juan Moreno-Cruz

PART VI: Burden Sharing and Development

• Poverty and climate change: Natural disasters, agricultural impacts and health shocks / Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer and Adrien Vogt-Schilb
• Policy options in low-income countries: Achieving socially appropriate climate change response objectives / Alice Akinyi Kaudia
• REDD+: What should come next? / Arild Angelsen
• Curbing carbon without curbing development / Paul Collier
• Towards resilient and low-carbon cities / Anthony G. Bigio
• Meaningful technology development and transfer: A necessary condition for a viable climate regime / Heleen de Coninck and Shikha Bhasin

PART VII: Climate Finance

• The macroeconomics of climate policy: Investments and financial flows / Emanuele Massetti
• Pros and cons of alternative sources of climate change financing and prospects for ‘unconventional finance’ / Barbara Buchner and Jane Wilkinson
• Harnessing the animal spirits of finance for a low-carbon transition / Jean-Charles Hourcade
• Measuring vulnerability to climate change for allocating funds to adaptation / Patrick Guillaumont

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