The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
：The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
Publication subTitle ：The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming
Author： Victor David G.;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9781400824069
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691088709
Subject： D5 World Politics;D8 Diplomacy, International Relations;X-0 Environmental Science Theory;X5 Environmental Pollution and Prevention
Keyword： 环境污染及其防治,环境科学理论,外交、国际关系
Language： ENG
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Description
Even as the evidence of global warming mounts, the international response to this serious threat is coming unraveled. The United States has formally withdrawn from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; other key nations are facing difficulty in meeting their Kyoto commitments; and developing countries face no limit on their emissions of the gases that cause global warming. In this clear and cogent book-reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events--David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument. He explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative.
Global warming continues to dominate environmental news as legislatures worldwide grapple with the process of ratification of the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The collapse of the November 2000 conference at the Hague showed clearly how difficult it will be to bring the Kyoto treaty into force. Yet most politicians, policymakers, and analysts hailed it as a vital first step in slowing greenhouse warming. David Victor was not among them.
Kyoto's fatal flaw, Victor argues, is that it can work only if emissions trading works. The Protocol requires industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases to specific targets. Crucially, the Protocol also provides for so-called "emissions trading," whereby nations could offset the need for rapid cuts in their own emissions by buying e
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