Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy electronic resource by Christian Lininger.
Material type: TextSeries: Springer ClimatePublication details: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015Description: XVI, 249 p. 6 illus. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319159911Subject(s): environment | climate change | International economics | Economic policy | Environmental economics | Environment | Climate Change | Environmental Economics | Economic Policy | International EconomicsDDC classification: 577.27 LOC classification: QC902.8-903.2Online resources: Click here to access onlineIntroduction -- Part I: The Economic, Political and Legal Background -- Part II: Theoretical Analysis -- Part III: Implementing Consumption-Based Policy Approaches.
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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