Climate governance at the crossroads:experimenting with a global response after Kyoto
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
Publication Dates: | c2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 224 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780195390087 (hardback : alk. paper) 0195390083 (hardback : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | X16 |
CLC: | X16 |
Call Number: | X16/H711 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Into the void -- The world of climate governance experimentation -- Making sense of experimentation -- Experimenting in practice -- Experimenting with cities and technology deployment -- Constructing carbon markets -- Lost in the void or filling the void? Provides a systematic assessment of climate change initiatives that have emerged across the globe independent of United Nations sponsored negotiations and treaties. The global response to climate change has reached a critical juncture. Since the 1992 signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the nations of the world have attempted to address climate change through large-scale multilateral treaty-making. These efforts have been heroic, but disappointing. As evidence for the quickening pace of climate change mounts the treaty-making process has sputtered, and many are now skeptical about the prospect of an effective global response. Yet global treaty-making is not the only way that climate change can be addressed or, indeed, is |