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A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada
Canada has been an engaged participant in global climate change negotiations since the late 1980s. Until recently, Canadian policy seemed to be driven in large part by a desire to join in multilateral efforts to address climate change. By contrast, current policy is seeking a made in Canada approach to the issue. Recent government-sponsored analytic efforts as well as the government's own stated policies have been focused almost entirely on domestic regulation and incentives, domestic opportunities for technological responses, domestic costs, domestic carbon markets, and the setting of a domestic carbon price at a level that sends the appropriate marketplace signal to produce needed reductions.
A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada builds on the premise that Canada is in need of an approach that effectively integrates domestic priorities and global policy imperatives. Leading Canadian and international experts explore policy ideas and options from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including science, law, political science, economics, and sociology. Chapters explore the costs, opportunities, or imperatives to participate in international diplomatic initiatives and regimes, the opportunities and impacts of regional or global carbon markets, the proper mix of domestic policy tools, the parameters of Canadian energy policy, and the dynamics that propel or hinder the Canadian policy process.
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The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy
Economic research on climate change has been crucial in advancing our understanding of the consequences associated with global warming as well as the costs and benefits of the various policies that might reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. As nations work to develop climate policies, economic insights into their design and implementation are ever more important.
With a balance between theoretical and empirical approaches, The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy looks at the possible effects of various climate policies on a range of economic outcomes. The studies that comprise the volume examine topics that include the coordination—or lack thereof—between the federal and state governments, implications of monitoring and enforcing climate policy, and the specific consequences of various climate policies for the agricultural, automotive, and buildings sectors.
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Climate Change and Land Policies
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Land Policies in the Face of Climate Change - Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong -- Chapter 1: Land Policies in the Face of Climate Change -- Climate Change and Risk Assessment -- 2 Preparing for Rising Water Along U.S. Coastlines - Bruce Babbitt -- 3 Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Zone Management - Robert J. Nicholls -- Commentary - Douglas Meffert -- 4 The Impact of Climate Change on Land - Robert Mendelsohn -- Commentary - W. David Montgomery -- Chapter 2: Preparing for Rising Water Along U.S. Coastlines -- Chapter 3: Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Zone Management -- Chapter 4: The Impact of Climate Change on Land -- Climate Change Policies and Land Use -- 5 Alternative Energy Sources and Land Use - Clinton J. Andrews, Lisa Dewey-Mattia, Judd M. Schechtman, and Mathias Mayr -- Commentary - Gordon Walker -- 6 Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Local Climate Change Planning - Elisabeth M. Hamin -- Commentary - Kirsten H. Engel -- Chapter 5: Alternative Energy Sources and Land Use -- Chapter 6: Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Local Climate Change Planning -- Urban Form,Transportation, and Emissions -- 7 Land Use and Vehicle Miles of Travel in the Climate Change Debate: Getting Smarter Than Your Average Bear - Marlon G. Boarnet, Douglas Houston, Gavin Ferguson, and Steven Spears -- Commentary - Kenneth A. Small -- 8 The Decline in Transit-Sustaining Densities in U.S. Cities, 1910-2000 - Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Jason Parent, and Daniel A. Civco -- Commentary - Susan Handy -- 9 Prediction of Transportation Outcomes for LEED-ND Pilot Projects - Reid Ewing, Colin Quinn-Hurst, Lauren Brown, Meghan Bogaerts, Michael Greenwald, Ming Zhang, and Lawrence Frank -- Commentary - Judith A. Layzer.
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Climate Policy Options Post-2012
This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses the following key questions:
* What long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance sustainability on a global level?
* What are the implications of long-term European climate strategy for the design of a global post-2012 climate regime?
* What are the key concerns of different stakeholders and how will these concerns impact on long-term climate policy?
These questions were discussed during two workshops, commissioned by the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment (EFIEA) and jointly organized by the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK. Selected papers from these workshops were adapted and peer-reviewed for publication. International experts offer detailed policy analysis and review the links between policy and economics, sustainable development, technology and adaptation. Also included are introductory and concluding remarks from the guest editors, highlighting key points and offering an expert synthesis of the workshop discussions.
This will be invaluable reading for professionals, researchers and academics interested in climate change and climate policy, policy makers, policy analysts, energy consultants, and representatives from industry planning their own long-term energy strategies.
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Children of a modest star : planetary thinking for an age of crises
A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.
Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders. While the consequences of these flows range across scales, from the planetary to the local, the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level: the nation-state. This profound mismatch between the scale of planetary challenges and the institutions tasked with governing them is leading to cascading systemic failures.
In the groundbreaking Children of a Modest Star, Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman not only challenge dominant ways of thinking about humanity's relationship to the planet and the political forms that presently govern it, but also present a new, innovative framework that corresponds to our inherently planetary condition. Drawing on intellectual history, political philosophy, and the holistic findings of Earth system science, Blake and Gilman argue that it is essential to reimagine our governing institutions in light of the fact that we can only thrive if the multi-species ecosystems we inhabit are also flourishing.
Aware of the interlocking challenges we face, it is no longer adequate merely to critique our existing systems or the modernist assumptions that helped create them. Blake and Gilman propose a bold, original architecture for global governance—what they call planetary subsidiarity—designed to enable the enduring habitability of the Earth for humans and non-humans alike. Children of a Modest Star offers a clear-eyed and urgent vision for constructing a system capable of stabilizing a planet in crisis.
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The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference: A Postmortem
Since the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or Framework Convention) in 2005, attention has focused on what to do after 2012, when the Protocol's first commitment period ends. Should the Kyoto Protocol be extended through the adoption of a second commitment period, with a new round of emission reduction targets for developed country parties? And, if so, should a new agreement be adopted under the Framework Convention, which addresses the emissions of countries that either are not parties to the Protocol (the United States) or do not have Kyoto emissions targets (developing countries)? Or should a single new agreement be adopted that replaces the Kyoto Protocol and is more comprehensive in coverage, addressing both developed and developing country emissions?
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