Environmental efforts are focused on providing a market-driven cost of carbon while encouraging the development of green technologies. New measures will rapidly need to be introduced, globally, to keep the temperature from rising by more than two degrees. Against this backdrop, green trade protectionism has emerged as the most controversial and least reported undercurrents of the green movement.
Scope
– Data and reasons why future marginal sources of global carbon emission growth will originate largely from the budding superpowers.
– Data demonstrating that policy responses the world over, the likes of EU ETS, are too disjointed and insufficient to deliver climate change ambitions.
– A detailed explanation of the proposed new and controversial tariffs or 'border measures' on carbon-intensive imports.
– Key limitations of the new proposed frameworks and the likely responses that such frameworks would provoke.
Highlights
Climate change is a global problem which requires a global common approach. Yet Western policy responses are disjointed and unlikely to deliver the abatement of greenhouse gas concentrations needed to counteract the existential threat that is climate change.
The new tariffs or 'border measures' on carbon-intensive imports proposed by the likes of France and the US have emerged as the most controversial yet least reported undercurrents of the climate change movement. The potential damage to the international trade regime that such import allowance requirements could foster cannot however be ignored.
The proposed legislative frameworks represent a solid foundation for a domestic US climate policy and the development of a meaningful global climate agreement that includes the key, rapidly-growing developing economies.
Reasons to Purchase
– Understand the complex frameworks proposed by the Waxman-Markey bill in the US along with its key benefits and limitations.
– Place the Waxman-Market bill and its proposed legislative frameworks within the wider context of failed climate change policy responses.
– Grasp that a new age in upon us; one where the West seeks to address and challenge the very origin of global emissions, for the very first time.
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Publication Date: August 2009
Publisher: Datamonitor
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