J Gupta

Climate Change and European Leadership: A Sustainable Role for Europe? - Environment & Policy J Gupta Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: Dordrecht; London: Kluwer Academic, 2000.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; This text provides an authoritative and far-reaching, yet controversial analysis of European efforts to implement and secure global action on climate change, and how this relates to wider questions about the role of European and global sustainability. Table of Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgements. Summary and overview. Policymakers summary. List of abbreviations. Part I: The EU and Leadership in International Climate and Environmental Regimes: Learning from Experience. 1. Climate change, leadership and the EU; M. Grubb, J. Gupta. 2. Leadership; M. Grubb, J. Gupta. 3. The complicated development of EU climate policy; J. Wettestad. 4. The role of the EU in climate negotiations; F. Yamin. 5. Perceptions of the EU's role; J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp. 6. The EU in international environmental regimes and the Energy Charter Treaty; S. Oberthur. Part II: Socio-Economic Analysis of Climate Policy Strategies. 7. Socio-economics of policy formation and choices; J.-C. Hourcade, et al. 8. The economics of coalition formation; C. Carraro. 9. Issue linkages to the sustainability agenda; W. Jung, R. Loske. 10. Economic dimensions of the Kyoto Protocol; J.-C. Hourcade, M. Grubb. Part III: Implementing EU Commitments on Climate Change. 11. Competence and subsidiarity; A. Dahl. 12. Emission reductions in EU countries; H. A. Aaheim, C. Bretteville. 13. Implementing EU Commitments under Kyoto; M. Grubb, J.-C. Hourcade. Part IV: Global Strategies and Scenarios. 14. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the EU; J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp. 15. Leadership scenarios; J. Gupta, N. van der Grijp. 16. Implementing European leadership; M. Grubb, J. Gupta. References. Annex I: Target differentiation and the European Bubble'. Index."Publisher Marketing: The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place. Although climate change is firmly positioned on the political agenda and some initial targets have been agreed within a global framework, we are still far away from a mature political and practical policy which may deliver timely and appropriate results .to tum the tide. This is partly due to the complex nature of a possible global climate change regime, the still early stage of the development of effective and efficient instruments and the wide variety of possible ramifications for individual countries and economic sectors. But it is also due to the complexity of the negotiation process, and the lack of effective international or even global governance and leadership to tackle a multi-dimensional problem of this size and nature. This book is the first broad attempt to address the issue of leadership by one of the major parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in the ongoing international debate and negotiations towards such a policy which inevitably has to be constructed on a global scale. Review Citations: Scitech Book News 03/01/2001 pg. 53 (EAN 9780792364665, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Gupta, Joyeeta Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Climate Change Law and Policy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and of Water Law and Policy at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She is editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics and is on the editorial board of the journals Carbon and Law Review, International Journal on Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Policy, and International Community Law Review. She was a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She is on the scientific steering committees of many different international programmes including the Global Water Systems Project and the Earth System Governance Project. She has published several books on climate change, including The Climate Change Convention and Developing Countries: From Conflict to Consensus? (1997), and Our Simmering Planet: What to Do About Global Warming (2001). Her edited books include The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water (2009, with J. Dellapenna), Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: The Role of Institutions and Instruments to Control Global Change (2003, with M. Faure and A. Nentjes), Issues in International Climate Policy: Theory and Policy (2003, with E. Van Ierland and M. Kok), and Climate Change and European Leadership: A Sustainable Role for Europe (2000, with M. Grubb).