Issues in International Climate Policy

Edited by Ekko C. van Ierland, Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Wageningen University, Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam and Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment, IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education and Marcel T.J. Kok, Researcher, RIVM National Institute for Public Health and Environment, Office for Environmental Assessments, the Netherlands

Contents: 1. Options for International Climate Policies: Towards an Effective Regime Part I: Problem Exploration and Relevant Context 2. Why Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Reasons, Issue-Linkages and Dilemmas 3. Challenges of Future Climate Policy: What Can Be Expected? 4. Global Trends and Climate Change Policies 5. Climate Change Policy in Changing Contexts: Globalization, Political Modernization and Legal Innovation Part II: Towards Solutions and Consequences of these Solutions 6. Policies and Measures in International Climate Policy: Price vs. Quantity 7. The Kyoto Mechanisms: Economic Potential, Environmental Problems and Political Barriers 8. Terrestrial Carbon Sinks and Biomass in International Climate Policies Part III: Implementation and the Development of a Climate Regime 9. Comprehensive Approaches to Differentiation of Future Climate Commitments – Some Options Compared 10. Linkages Between the Climate Change Regime and the International Trade Regime 11. Elaborating an International Compliance Regime under the Kyoto Protocol 12. Between ‘Curbing the Trends’ and ‘Business-as-Usual’: NGOs in International Climate Change Policies 13. Climate Options for the Long Term: Possible Strategies Index