Overview
- Presents a new approach to examine incentive effects of climate policies
- A simple, stylized analytical model helps readers to understand the different consequences of consumption - as compared to production-based climate policies
- Analyzes the cost-effectiveness of different climate policy variants
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Climate (SPCL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Economic, Political, and Legal Background
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Front Matter
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Implementing Consumption-Based Policy Approaches
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christian Lininger is a journalist specializing in foreign affairs and an economist. For two decades he has covered international politics from around the globe for the ORF, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. Currently, he works as the ORF’s Moscow correspondent. Lininger’s economic research interests are international economics, environmental economics and climate policy. While writing this book, Lininger worked at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Consumption-Based Approaches in International Climate Policy
Authors: Christian Lininger
Series Title: Springer Climate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15991-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15990-4Published: 27 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38629-4Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15991-1Published: 13 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2352-0698
Series E-ISSN: 2352-0701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 249
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Climate Change, Environmental Economics, Economic Policy, International Economics