Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy
Overview
This book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from production-based to consumption-based approaches in international climate policy. With the help of an analytical model, the author investigates the effects of different policy variants on environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, carbon leakage, competitiveness and the global distribution of income. The economic, legal and political background and the often contradictory findings on consumption-based approaches are reviewed in great detail. In the final chapters, options for practical policy design are developed. The book concludes that a switch to consumption orientation is not a policy tool whereby industrialized countries can unilaterally improve climate policy effectiveness, but should rather be seen as a possible intermediate step on the way to a fully multilateral mitigation strategy.
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- ISBN-13: 9783319386294
- ISBN-10: 3319386298
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: October 2016
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.84 pounds
- Page Count: 249
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