1st Edition
Climate Policy Options Post-2012 European strategy, technology and adaptation after Kyoto
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses the following key questions:
* What long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance sustainability on a global level?
* What are the implications of long-term European climate strategy for the design of a global post-2012 climate regime?
* What are the key concerns of... Read more
Preface * Towards a long-term European strategy on climate change policy * Long-term goals and post-2012 commitments: where do we go from here with climate policy? * Between the USA and the South: strategic choices for European climate policy * The role of technological development and policies in a post-Kyoto climactic regime * Post-Kyoto climate policy targets: costs and competitiveness implications * Post-2012 climate action in the broad framework of sustainable development policies: the role of the EU * The EU and future climate policy: is mainstreaming adaptation a distraction or part of the solution? * Towards climate policy integration in the EU: evolving dilemmas and opportunities * Rationalities for adaptation in EU climate change policies *
Biography
Bert Metz leads the Global Environmental Assessment Division at RIVM, the National Institute for Public Health & the Environment, the Netherlands. He is also co-chairman of IPCC Working Group III (climate change mitigation). Mike Hulme is Exec Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK. Editor-in-chief of Climate Policy is Michael Grubb, Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and Associated Director of Policy at the Carbon Trust, UK
