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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452964303321

Autore

Mattoo Aaditya

Titolo

Greenprint [[electronic resource] ] : a new approach to cooperation on climate change / / Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington D.C., : Center for Global Development, 2013

ISBN

1-933286-79-2

1-299-15991-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SubramanianArvind

Disciplina

363.738/74

Soggetti

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Climate change mitigation - International cooperation

Electronic books.

Developing countries Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Climate change: a greenprint for cooperation -- Equity in climate change: an analytical review -- Preserving development opportunities -- Can global de-carbonization inhibit developing country industrialization? -- Reconciling climate change and trade policy.

Sommario/riassunto

Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factors-which Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo call the ""narrative,"" ""adding up,"" and ""new world"" problems-the wonder is not the current impasse; it is, rather, the belief that progress might be possible at all.In this book, the authors argue that any chance of progress