Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet (Hardcover)

David G. Victor

ISBN 10: 0521865018 / ISBN 13: 9780521865012

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011

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Hardcover. Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warming more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking. Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming. This book explains why and offers an alternative strategy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780521865012

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Title: Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More ...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: new

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Synopsis:

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming. This book explains why and offers an alternative strategy.

About the Author:

David Victor is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he also leads the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. His research has covered a wide array of topics related to international environmental regulation, energy markets and international law. His previous books include Natural Gas and Geopolitics (Cambridge University Press, 2006), The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (second edition, 2004) and Technological Innovation and Economic Performance (2002).