Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet - Hardcover

Victor, David G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521865018 ISBN 13: 9780521865012

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warming more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking.

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Book Description

After twenty years of international talks, the world is now in gridlock about how best to tackle the problem of global warming. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking.

About the Author

David Victor is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he also leads the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. His research has covered a wide array of topics related to international environmental regulation, energy markets and international law. His previous books include Natural Gas and Geopolitics (Cambridge University Press, 2006), The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (second edition, 2004) and Technological Innovation and Economic Performance (2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521865018
• ISBN 13: 9780521865012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392