Consumption-based approaches in international climate policy [electronic resource] / Christian Lininger.

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Consumption-based approaches in international climate policy [electronic resource] / Christian Lininger.

9783319159911 electronic book
3319159917 electronic book
9783319159904

Cham : Springer, [2015]

English

1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-15991-1 doi

HC79.E5

363.7/0561

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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