Environmental Policy

Barnes, Pamela M.

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“…This was the ultimate neo-liberal market concession to the climate process, an instrument advocated by many mainstream economists, but one that never worked as it was supposed to as the experience with the European emissions trading system introduced in 2005 has proven (Laing et al, 2013). The simple alternative of course would have been a carbon tax, which industry at the time fought tooth and nail (Barnes & Barnes, 1999). The difference between cap-and-trade and carbon tax is that the former allows the private sector to accrue all proceeds from optimal management of emissions rights, and as it turned out to use many opportunities to game the system without reducing overall emissions (Chan, 2010).…”

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The Two Sides of the Paris Climate Agreement

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2016

The Journal of Environment & Development

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The December 2015 Paris Climate Agreement is better than no agreement. This is perhaps the best that can be said about it. The scientific evidence on global warming is alarming, and the likelihood depressingly small that the world can stay below a 2 C-even less a 1.5 C warming-over pre-industrial times. The Paris Agreement does not provide a blueprint for achieving these stabilization objectives. But it is ultimately the hope, however small, that a fundamental and rapid energy transition is achievable that must inform social and political behavior and activism in the coming years. In this sense, the Paris outcome is an aspirational global accord that will trigger and legitimize more climate action around the world. The question is whether this will happen quickly enough and at a sufficient scale to avoid disastrous warming of the planet. What is certain is that it will not occur without determined and far-reaching government intervention in energy markets in the next few years, particularly in the largest polluting countries.

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The Two Sides of the Paris Climate Agreement

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“…The anti-tax coalition soon became as obstructionist as the anti-regulatory coalition. An ambitious proposal by the European Commission for an EU-wide carbon tax in 1992 in support of climate negotiations went nowhere (Barnes & Barnes, 1999). In the United States, an energy bill that would have introduced a tax on carbon content of fossil fuels was quickly defeated in 1993 and congressional elections in 1994 brought a Republican anti-tax coalition into power.…”

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30 Years of International Climate Negotiations: Are They Still our Best Hope?

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2023

The Journal of Environment & Development

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30 years of international climate talks have not prevented the globe from heating up more than 1 degree Celsius over post-industrial times, nor have they kept the year 2022 from breaking new temperature and extreme weather records around the world. Although the international process has been indispensable for building the foundation to move out of the carbon age, it is now time to shift attention away from the acrimonious climate talks and treat them as a sideshow, rather than the solution to the problem. An analysis of 30 years of international climate negotiations shows that multilateral climate diplomacy years ago stopped driving countries’ action. National political opportunity structures, normative shifts, economic factors, and external events are what shape countries’ climate policies largely independent of international climate negotiations.

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Environmental Policy

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The Two Sides of the Paris Climate Agreement

The Two Sides of the Paris Climate Agreement

30 Years of International Climate Negotiations: Are They Still our Best Hope?

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