Springer Climate

Lininger, Christian

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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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2015-03-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319159904

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15991-1

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 249