Law and Economics of International Climate Change Policy

by John O. Niles, Eric Levy, Reimund Schwarze

International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy. The first period started at the "Earth Summit" of Rio de Janeiro in 1992, where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was opened for signature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048156475
• ISBN13: 9789048156474
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"