{"product_id":"a-climate-for-change-von-dirk-heine","title":"A climate for change","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, , course: Harvard College China-India Development and Relations Symposium, New York  03-04\/2007, language: English, abstract: One of the major vindications for the US not signing Kyoto is that the treaty does not contain any legally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebinding emission reduction targets for China and India, although these countries have become respectively\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe second and fifth biggest emitter of CO2. India and China -in return- claim that a path of development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat would not harm the climate is too expensive for them; the West has to pay for a historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresponsibility that stems from its past emissions, which brought about anthropogenic climate change in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efirst place. In this way the blame is passed from one nation to the other, and in the meantime all three\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecountries keep on increasing their gross emissions. The essay identifies that part of the problem is the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecurrent perspective in intergovernmental emission reduction negotiation. All negotiation is about how much\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe global top-polluters agree to reduce their emissions. Kyoto left open to what value of CO2-equivalent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecountries ultimately have to reduce their emissions. Thus it was also not possible to tell how much India\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand China can increase their emissions. The essay rationalises how the exclusiveness of a top-down\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enegotiation increases the cost of climate change mitigation in the US, as in China and India, by constricting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe US-suggestion of international CO2-emission trading to the inflexible Clean Development Mechanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt describes how China and India could be integrated into emissions trading by setting a definite limit to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeach country's emissions of CO2-equivalent. Here John Rawl's Original Position is used to identify that this\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evalue should be found on a per-capita basis. The essay follows on to analyse the effect that the introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof such a huge new market would have on the Sino-Indian region compared to the West, and additionally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehow it could alter the economic relationships between China and India. The essay then presents two ideas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon how the cost of this trading scheme would be divided between economically more developed countries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand less economically developed countries, in order to improve the political feasibility of the concept.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, the essay explains how linking each nation's gross amount of emission permits to the population\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esize at a base year could give a strong economic incentive towards all countries world-wide to lower their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epopulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783638794206\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA concept for mitigating climate change and at the same time economically lowering population growth, bridging official negotiation positions of the Indian, the Chinese and the US-administrations\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783638794206","offer_id":58809064161605,"sku":"9783638794206","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_a7034ea0-f361-4d79-aa96-7a2aad110385.jpg?v=1786335935","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/a-climate-for-change-von-dirk-heine","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}