Climate policy architecture for the Cancun paradigm shift: building on the lessons from history

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 353-367

  Hourcade, Jean Charles ^a,b   Shukla, P R ^c   Cassen, Christophe ^a,b  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon assets; Climate regime; Equity; Finance; Policy instruments; Social cost of carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; PARADIGM SHIFT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

ASIA;

EID: 84947869302     PISSN: 15679764     EISSN: 15731553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10784-015-9301-x     Document Type: Article

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