List of Figures ............................................... xii
List of Tables ................................................ xiv
List of Boxes ................................................. xvi
List of Contributors ......................................... xvii
1 Introduction ................................................. 1
Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn
PART I. REVISITING THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
2 Climate-change Policy: Why has so Little been Achieved? ...... 9
Dieter Helm
3 The Global Deal on Climate Change ........................... 36
Cameron Hepburn and Nicholas Stern
4 Climate Treaties and the Imperative of Enforcement .......... 58
Scott Barrett
5 The Implications of Rapid Development for Emissions and
Climate-change Mitigation ................................... 81
Ross Garnaut, Stephen Howes, Frank Jotzo, and Peter
Sheehan
6 The Behavioural Economics of Climate Change ................ 107
Kjell Arne Brekke and Olof Johansson-Stenman
PART II THE GLOBAL PLAYERS AND AGREEMENTS
7 Climate Change and Africa .................................. 125
Paul Collier, Gordon Conway, and Tony Venables
8 China's Balance of Emissions Embodied in Trade:
Approaches to Measurement and Allocating International
Responsibility ............................................. 142
Jiahua Pan, Jonathan Phillips, and Ying Chen
9 India and Climate-change Mitigation ........................ 167
Vijay Joshi and Urjit R. Patel
10 Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive US Cap-
and-trade System ........................................... 197
Robert N. Stavins
11 EU Climate-change Policy—A Critique ........................ 222
Dieter Helm
PART III. LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES
12 Nuclear Power, Climate Change, and Energy Policy ........... 247
Dieter Helm
13 Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage ......................... 263
Howard Herzog
14 Climate-change Mitigation from Renewable Energy: Its
Contribution and Cost ...................................... 284
Richard Green
15 The National Inventory Approach for International
Forest-carbon Sequestration Management ..................... 302
Krister R. Andersson, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Kenneth
R. Richards
16 On the Regulation of Geoengineering ........................ 325
David G. Victor
17 Improving Energy Efficiency: Hidden Costs and Unintended
Consequences ............................................... 340
Steve Sorrell
PART IV. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
18 Carbon Taxes, Emissions Trading, and Hybrid Schemes ........ 365
Cameron Hepburn
19 Docking into a Global Carbon Market: Clean Investment
Budgets to Finance Low-carbon Economic Development ......... 385
Gemot Wagner, Nathaniel Keohane, Annie Petsonk, and James
S. Wang
20 International Carbon Finance and the Clean Development
Mechanism .................................................. 409
Cameron Hepburn
PART V. INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE
21 The Global Climate-change Regime: A Defence ................ 433
Joanna Depledge and Farhana Yamin
22 Governing Climate Change: Lessons from other Governance
Regimes .................................................... 454
Arunabha Ghosh and Ngaire Woods
Bibliography .................................................. 478
Index ......................................................... 521
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