Screen LibraryGlobal carbon pricing : the path to climate cooperation /
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a "pledge and review" approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, leading economists describe an altern...
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a "pledge and review" approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, leading economists describe an alternate model for climate agreements, drawing on the work of the late Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom and others. They show that a "common commitment" scheme is more effective than an "individual commitment" scheme; the latter depends on altruism while the former involves reciprocity ("we will if you will"). The c |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262036269 0262036266 |
| Index Number: | HJ5316 |
| CLC: | X196 |
| Call Number: | X196/G562-2 |
| Contents: |
Why Paris did not solve the climate dilemma / Price carbon : I will if you will / Reflections on the international coordination of carbon pricing / Global carbon pricing / The case for pricing greenhouse gas emissions / Ove |