Global Climate Policy

Actors, Concepts, and Enduring Challenges

Detlef F. Sprinz, Nazli Choucri

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9780262346474
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The current international climate change regime has a long history, and it is likely that its evolution will continue, despite such recent setbacks as the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement of 2015. Indeed, the U.S. withdrawal may spur efforts by other members of the international community to strengthen the Paris accord on their own. This volume offers an original contribution to the study of the international political context of climate change over the last three decades, with fresh analyses of the current international climate change regime that consider both the challenges of maintaining current structures and the possibilities for creating new forms of international cooperation.

The contributors are leading experts with both academic and policy experience; some are advisors to governments and the Climate Secretariat itself. Their contributions combine substantive evidence with methodological rigor. They discuss such topics as the evolution of the architecture of the climate change regime; different theoretical perspectives; game-theoretical and computer simulation approaches to modeling outcomes and assessing agreements; coordination with other legal regimes; non-state actors; developing and emerging countries; implementation, compliance, and effectiveness of agreements; and the challenges of climate change mitigation after the Paris Agreement.

Contributors
Michaël Aklin, Guri Bang, Daniel Bodansky, Thierry Bréchet, Lars Brückner, Frank Grundig, Jon Hovi, Yasuko Kameyama, Urs Luterbacher, Axel Michaelowa, Katharina Michaelowa, Carla Norrlof, Matthew Paterson, Lavanya Rajamani, Tora Skodvin, Detlef F. Sprinz, Arild Underdal, Jorge E. Viñuales, Hugh Ward

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Announcement Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Foreword
• 1. Our Approach
• 2. The Evolution and Governance Architecture of the United Nations Climate Change Regime
• 3. International Relations Theories and Climate Change Politics
• 4. Cooperation on Climate Change: Insights from Game Theory
• 5. Computational Models, Global Climate Change, and Policy
• 6. Environmental Protection, Differentiated Responsibility, and World Trade: Making Room for Climate Action
• 7. Major Countries
• 8. Nonstate Actors in International Policy Making: The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond
• 9. Business
• 10. Equity and Development: Developing Countries in the International Climate Negotiations
• 11. Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness of Policies and Institutions
• 12. Our Conclusions
• Contributors
• Index
• Series List