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Toward a New Climate Agreement - Conflict, Resolution and Governance (Paperback)
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Toward a New Climate Agreement - Conflict, Resolution and Governance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
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Climate change is one of the most pressing problems facing the
global community. Although most states agree that climate change is
occurring and is at least partly the result of humans' reliance on
fossil fuels, managing a changing global climate is a formidable
challenge. Underlying this challenge is the fact that states are
sovereign, governed by their own laws and regulations. Sovereignty
requires that states address global problems such as climate change
on a voluntary basis, by negotiating international agreements.
Despite a consensus on the need for global action, many questions
remain concerning how a meaningful international climate agreement
can be realized. This book brings together leading experts to speak
to such questions and to offer promising ideas for the path toward
a new climate agreement. Organized in three main parts, it examines
the potential for meaningful climate cooperation. Part 1 explores
sources of conflict that lead to barriers to an effective climate
agreement. Part 2 investigates how different processes influence
states' prospects of resolving their differences and of reaching a
climate agreement that is more effective than the current Kyoto
Protocol. Finally, part 3 focuses on governance issues, including
lessons learned from existing institutional structures. The book is
unique in that it brings together the voices of experts from many
disciplines, such as economics, political science, international
law, and natural science. The authors are academics, practitioners,
consultants and advisors. Contributions draw on a variety of
methods, and include both theoretical and empirical studies. The
book should be of interest to scholars and graduate students in the
fields of economics, political science, environmental law, natural
resources, earth sciences, sustainability, and many others. It is
directly relevant for policy makers, stakeholders and climate
change negotiators, offering insights into the role of uncertainty,
fairness, policy linkage, burden sharing and alternative
institutional designs.
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