@article{1386051,
      recid = {1386051},
      author = {Meckling, Jonas.},
      title = {Carbon coalitions : business, climate politics, and the  rise of emissions trading /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 250 pages) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {An examination of how a transnational coalition of firms  and NGOs influenced the emergence of emissions trading as a  central component of global climate governance.Over the  past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the  industrialized world's primary policy response to global  climate change despite considerable controversy. With  carbon markets worth $144 billion in 2009, carbon trading  represents the largest manifestation of the trend toward  market-based environmental governance. In Carbon  Coalitions, Jonas Meckling presents the first comprehensive  study on the rise of carbon trading and the role business  played in making this policy instrument a central pillar of  global climate governance.Meckling explains how a  transnational coalition of firms and a few market-oriented  environmental groups actively promoted international  emissions trading as a compromise policy solution in a  situation of political stalemate. The coalition sidelined  not only environmental groups that favored taxation and  command-and-control regulation but also business interests  that rejected any emissions controls. Considering the  sources of business influence, Meckling emphasizes the  importance of political opportunities (policy crises and  norms), coalition resources (funding and legitimacy,) and  political strategy (mobilizing state allies and multilevel  advocacy).Meckling presents three case studies that  represent milestones in the rise of carbon trading: the  internationalization of emissions trading in the Kyoto  Protocol (1989-2000); the creation of the EU Emissions  Trading System (1998-2008); and the reemergence of  emissions trading on the U.S. policy agenda (2001-2009).  These cases and the theoretical framework that Meckling  develops for understanding the influence of transnational  business coalitions offer critical insights into the role  of business in the emergence of market-based global  environmental governance.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386051},
}