The Theory Of Environmental Agreements And Taxes: Co_2 Policy Performance In Comparative Perspective

摘要

In the uncertain world of post-Kyoto climate change policy development, the task of designing and implementing CO_2 reduction strategies has become a high stakes endeavour. Valuable political and economic capital have been wagered on the ability of scholars and decision-makers to correctly assess the national and sub-national factors that may enable or inhibit effective action on climate change. This assessment has yielded a plethora of regulatory strategies, which have been met with widely varying levels of success. As such, it has become imperative to enhance our understanding of the uncertain and highly complex interactions between political and social institutions, energy intensive industries, and economic system dynamics.