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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782860603321

Titolo

The design of climate policy / / edited by Roger Guesnerie and Henry Tulkens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008

ISBN

0-262-27450-7

1-4356-9987-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Altri autori (Persone)

GuesnerieR

TulkensHenry

Disciplina

363.738/7456

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Government policy

Climatic changes - Economic aspects

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

Contents; Series Foreword; Contributors; 1 Synopsis of the Book; I Design of Climate Institutions; 2 Improving on Kyoto; 3 The Design of Post-Kyoto Climate Schemes; 4 Design of Climate Change Policies; 5 Untying the Climate-Development Gordian Knot; II Stability of Outcomes; 6 Transfer Schemes and Institutional Changes for Sustainable Global Climate Treaties; 7 Parallel Climate Blocs; 8 Cooperation, Stability, and Self-enforcement in International Environmental Agreements; 9 Heterogeneity of Countries in Negotiations of International Environmental Agreements; III Policy Design

10 Economics versus Climate Change11 Economics versus Climate Change: A Comment; 12 Absolute versus Intensity Limits for CO2 Emission Control; 13 On Multi-period Allocation of Tradable Emission Permits; 14 Optimal Sequestration Policy with a Ceiling on the Stock of Carbon in the Atmosphere; IV Models and Policies; 15 Mind the Rate!; 16 Leakage from Climate Policies and Border-Tax Adjustment; 17 The Global Warming Potential Paradox; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Leading international economists offer theoretical quantitative, and policy perspectives on climate policy in this text.