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Toward a New Climate Agreement - Conflict, Resolution and Governance (Hardcover, New)
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Toward a New Climate Agreement - Conflict, Resolution and Governance (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
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Climate change is arguably one of the most pressing problems facing
the global community. While most nations agree that climate change
is occurring and is largely the result of humans' reliance on
fossil fuels, managing a changing global climate is an impressive
challenge. Underlying this challenge is the fact that nations are
sovereign, and thus governed by their own rules and regulations.
Sovereignty requires that nations address global problems, like
climate change, through voluntary institutions typically referred
to as international environmental agreements (IEAs). This book
examines the challenges of sustaining meaningful cooperation among
countries striving to manage global climate change through
international environmental agreements. The first part of the book
looks backwards to learn from climate diplomacy's past experience
concerning the UNFCCC, the Kyoto protocol, and the Asia-Pacific
Partnership. It considers the political process of international
climate negotiations, provides critiques of existing climate
agreements and also includes analyses of climate policy for large
carbon-emitting countries (e.g., United States and China).It
analyzes issues such as the strengths and weaknesses of the Kyoto
protocol and its enforcement system, the rise and decline of the
Asia-Pacific Partnership, the record of international and regional
emissions trading, the experience with the UN track for climate
negotiations, and the conditions under which unilateral measures by
one or a few countries might encourage others to follow suit. The
second part explores how future climate agreements can be improved
based on the lessons of the past. This part presents and discusses
ideas for a new and more effective international architecture for
combating climate change. It analyses the relative merits of
top-down and bottom-up agreements, considers the potential of
sectoral agreements and technology agreements to constrain
emissions, and examines theoretically and empirically various
institutions for encouraging participation and compliance in a
future climate agreement. Finally, it considers the ups and downs
both of the UN negotiation track and of other possible forums for
climate diplomacy.Through the perspectives of leading international
scholars from multiple disciplines, readers of the book will gain
an understanding of how agreements are negotiated, the strength and
weaknesses of previous climate agreements and how a more effective
future climate agreement can be designed.
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