LEADER 05655nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910779901803321 005 20211029222551.0 010 $a1-4008-1850-8 010 $a1-283-37983-X 010 $a1-4008-2406-0 010 $a9786613379832 010 $a1-4008-1477-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824069 035 $a(CKB)111056486507872 035 $a(EBL)3030297 035 $a(OCoLC)778618974 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000645214 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383355 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645214 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10680661 035 $a(PQKB)11382684 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000124659 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11991730 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000124659 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10024229 035 $a(PQKB)21743513 035 $a(OCoLC)52255349 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36389 035 $a(DE-B1597)447839 035 $a(OCoLC)979754540 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824069 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3030297 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10522513 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL337983 035 $z(PPN)195532627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3030297 035 $a(PPN)187949190 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486507872 100 $a20001012d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming$b[electronic resource] /$fwith a new afterword by the author David G. Victor 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 225 0 $aA Council on Foreign Relations book 300 $a"A Council on Foreign Relations book." 311 0 $a0-691-12026-9 311 0 $a0-691-08870-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [155]-171) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Crisis and Opportunity --$tChapter 2. Kyoto's Fantasyland: Allocating the Atmosphere --$tChapter 3. Monitoring and Enforcement --$tChapter 4. Rethinking the Architecture --$tChapter 5. After Kyoto: What Next? --$tAppendix. The Causes and Effects of Global Warming: A Brief Survey of the Science --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aEven as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and cogent book-reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events--David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument. He explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative. Global warming continues to dominate environmental news as legislatures worldwide grapple with the process of ratification of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The collapse of the November 2000 conference at the Hague showed clearly how difficult it will be to bring the Kyoto treaty into force. Yet most politicians, policymakers, and analysts hailed it as a vital first step in slowing greenhouse warming. David Victor was not among them. Kyoto's fatal flaw, Victor argues, is that it can work only if emissions trading works. The Protocol requires industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to specific targets. Crucially, the Protocol also provides for so-called "emissions trading," whereby nations could offset the need for rapid cuts in their own emissions by buying emissions credits from other countries. But starting this trading system would require creating emission permits worth two trillion dollars--the largest single invention of assets by voluntary international treaty in world history. Even if it were politically possible to distribute such astronomical sums, the Protocol does not provide for adequate monitoring and enforcement of these new property rights. Nor does it offer an achievable plan for allocating new permits, which would be essential if the system were expanded to include developing countries. The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol--which Victor views as inevitable--will provide the political space to rethink strategy. Better alternatives would focus on policies that control emissions, such as emission taxes. Though economically sensible, however, a pure tax approach is impossible to monitor in practice. Thus, the author proposes a hybrid in which governments set targets for both emission quantities and tax levels. This offers the important advantages of both emission trading and taxes without the debilitating drawbacks of each. Individuals at all levels of environmental science, economics, public policy, and politics-from students to professionals--and anyone else hoping to participate in the debate over how to slow global warming will want to read this book. 606 $aGlobal warming$xGovernment policy 606 $aGreenhouse gas mitigation$xGovernment policy 615 0$aGlobal warming$xGovernment policy. 615 0$aGreenhouse gas mitigation$xGovernment policy. 676 $a363.738/74526 700 $aVictor$b David G$089720 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779901803321 996 $aCollapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the struggle to slow global warming$9191866 997 $aUNINA