- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Contributors
-
1 Synopsis of the Book -
2 Improving on Kyoto: Greenhouse Gas Control as the Purchase of a Global Public Good -
3 The Design of Post-Kyoto Climate Schemes: Selected Questions in Analytical Perspective -
4 Design of Climate Change Policies: A Discussion of the GPGP Approach of Bradford and Guesnerie -
5 Untying the Climate-Development Gordian Knot: Economic Options in a Politically Constrained World -
6 Transfer Schemes and Institutional Changes for Sustainable Global Climate Treaties -
7 Parallel Climate Blocs: Incentives to Cooperation in International Climate Negotiations -
8 Cooperation, Stability, and Self-enforcement in International Environmental Agreements: A Conceptual Discussion -
9 Heterogeneity of Countries in Negotiations of International Environmental Agreements: A Joint Discussion of the Buchner-Carraro, Eyckmans-Finus, and Chander-Tulkens Chapters -
10 Economics versus Climate Change -
11 Economics versus Climate Change: A Comment -
12 Absolute versus Intensity Limits for CO2 Emission Control: Performance under Uncertainty -
13 On Multi-period Allocation of Tradable Emission Permits -
14 Optimal Sequestration Policy with a Ceiling on the Stock of Carbon in the Atmosphere -
15 Mind the Rate! Why the Rate of Global Climate Change Matters, and How Much -
16 Leakage from Climate Policies and Border-Tax Adjustment: Lessons from a Geographic Model of the Cement Industry -
17 The Global Warming Potential Paradox: Implications for the Design of Climate Policy - Index
Untying the Climate-Development Gordian Knot: Economic Options in a Politically Constrained World
Untying the Climate-Development Gordian Knot: Economic Options in a Politically Constrained World
- Chapter:
- (p.74) (p.75) 5 Untying the Climate-Development Gordian Knot: Economic Options in a Politically Constrained World
- Source:
- The Design of Climate Policy
- Author(s):
Jean-Charles Hourcade
P. R. Shukla
Sandrine Mathy
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter examines the involvement of less developed countries (LDCs) in climate policies. It discusses the alignment of development pathways and long-term climate change policies and then describes the development and climate synergies in the case of India. The chapter also examines the reinterpretation and amendment of the Kyoto Protocol.
Keywords: less developed countries, LDCs, climate policies, climate change, India, Kyoto Protocol
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Contributors
-
1 Synopsis of the Book -
2 Improving on Kyoto: Greenhouse Gas Control as the Purchase of a Global Public Good -
3 The Design of Post-Kyoto Climate Schemes: Selected Questions in Analytical Perspective -
4 Design of Climate Change Policies: A Discussion of the GPGP Approach of Bradford and Guesnerie -
5 Untying the Climate-Development Gordian Knot: Economic Options in a Politically Constrained World -
6 Transfer Schemes and Institutional Changes for Sustainable Global Climate Treaties -
7 Parallel Climate Blocs: Incentives to Cooperation in International Climate Negotiations -
8 Cooperation, Stability, and Self-enforcement in International Environmental Agreements: A Conceptual Discussion -
9 Heterogeneity of Countries in Negotiations of International Environmental Agreements: A Joint Discussion of the Buchner-Carraro, Eyckmans-Finus, and Chander-Tulkens Chapters -
10 Economics versus Climate Change -
11 Economics versus Climate Change: A Comment -
12 Absolute versus Intensity Limits for CO2 Emission Control: Performance under Uncertainty -
13 On Multi-period Allocation of Tradable Emission Permits -
14 Optimal Sequestration Policy with a Ceiling on the Stock of Carbon in the Atmosphere -
15 Mind the Rate! Why the Rate of Global Climate Change Matters, and How Much -
16 Leakage from Climate Policies and Border-Tax Adjustment: Lessons from a Geographic Model of the Cement Industry -
17 The Global Warming Potential Paradox: Implications for the Design of Climate Policy - Index
