Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy
Summary for Policymakers

A volume summarizing the key lessons from one of the world's most important projects on climate change.

Joseph E. Aldy (Edited by), Robert N. Stavins (Edited by)

9780521138000, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 6 August 2009

210 pages
24.7 x 17.4 x 1.1 cm, 0.43 kg

'Global climate regime building requires intellectual inputs. This timely volume of highly essential and constructive elements provides a wide readership with an in-depth understanding of equity, sustainability, and efficiency approaches to a successful conclusion of an international climate agreement at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009.' Pan Jiahua, Director, Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. It draws upon leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and non-governmental organizations from around the world to construct a small set of promising policy frameworks and then disseminate and discuss the design elements and frameworks with decision-makers. The Project is directed by Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. For more information, see the Project's website: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/climate

International Advisory Board, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
Faculty Steering Committee, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Management, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction and overview
Lessons for the International Policy Community
References
Appendix 1. Summaries of research initiatives, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Part I. Alternative International Policy Architectures: 1. An elaborated proposal for global climate policy architecture: specific formulas and emission targets for all countries in all decades
2. The EU emission trading scheme: a prototype global system?
3. Linkage of tradable permit systems in international climate policy architecture
4. The case for charges on greenhouse gas emissions
5. Towards a global compact for managing climate change
6. Sectoral approaches to a post-Kyoto international climate policy framework
7. A portfolio system of climate treaties
Part II. Negotiation, Assessment, and Compliance: 8. How to negotiate and update climate agreements
9. Metrics for evaluating policy commitments in a fragmented world: the challenges of equity and integrity
10. Justice and climate change
11. Toward a post-Kyoto climate change architecture: a political analysis
Part III. The Role and Means of Technology Transfer: 12. International climate technology strategies
13. Mitigation through resource transfers to developing countries: expanding greenhouse gas offsets
14. Possible development of a technology clean development mechanism in a post 2012 regime
Part IV. Global Climate Policy and International Trade: 15. Global environment and trade policy
16. A proposal for the design of the successor to the Kyoto protocol
Part V. Economic Development, Adaptation, and Deforestation: 17. Reconciling human development and climate protection: a multi-stage hybrid climate policy architecture
18. What do we expect from an international climate agreement? A perspective from a low-income country
19. Climate accession deals: new strategies for taming growth of greenhouse gases in developing countries
20. Policies for developing country engagement
21. International forest carbon sequestration in a post-Kyoto agreement
Part VI. Modeling Impacts of Alternative Allocations of Responsibility: 22. Modeling economic impacts of alternative international climate policy architectures: a quantitative and comparative assessment of architectures for agreement
23. Sharing the burden of GHG reductions
24. When technology and climate policy meet: energy technology in an international policy context
25. Revised emissions projections for China: why post-Kyoto climate policy must look east
26. Expecting the unexpected: macroeconomic volatility and climate policy
Part VII. Epilogue: 27. Epilogue: implementing architectures for agreement
Appendix 2. Selected list of individuals consulted, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Appendix 3. Workshops and conferences, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements
Appendix 4. Glossary and abbreviations.

Subject Areas: Environmental economics [KCN], Economics [KC]