Global warming gridlock [electronic resource] : creating more effective strategies for protecting the planet / David G. Victor.
Victor, David G.
2011
TD885.5.G73 V53 2011eb
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Title Global warming gridlock [electronic resource] : creating more effective strategies for protecting the planet / David G. Victor.
Author Victor, David G.
ISBN 9781139045032 (electronic bk.)
9780521865012
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 358 p.) : ill.
Call Number TD885.5.G73 V53 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738/74
Summary "Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warmin more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
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Preface and acknowledgements: a journey studying international environmental regulation
Hard truths about global warming: a roadmap to reading this book
Part I. Setting the scene
Introduction and overview
Why global warming is such a hard problem to solve
Part II. The three dimensions of climate policy strategy
Regulating emissions part 1: the enthusiastic countries
Regulating emissions part 2: engaging reluctant developing countries
Promoting technological change
Preparing for a changing climate: adaptation, geoengineering, and triage
Part III. Putting it all together
Explaining diplomatic gridlock: what went wrong?
A new strategy
Climate change and world order: implications for the UN, industry, diplomacy, and the great powers.

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