Architectures for agreement : addressing global climate change in the post-Kyoto world / edited by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Lawrence Summers -- 1. Introduction : international policy architecture for global climate change / Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins -- Part I Targets and timetables -- 2. Formulas for quantitative emission targets / Jeffrey Frankel -- Commentaries on Frankel. -- 2.1 Targets and timetables : good policy but bad politics? / Daniel Bodansky -- 2.2 Incentives and meta-architecture / Jonathan B. Wiener -- 3. Graduation and deepening / Axel Michaelowa -- Commentaries on Michaelowa -- 3.1 Alternatives to Kyoto : the case for a carbon tax / Richard N. Cooper -- 3.2 Beyond graduation and deepening : toward cosmopolitan scholarship / Joyeeta Gupta -- Part II Harmonized domestic actions -- 4. Fragmented carbon markets and reluctant nations : implications for the design of effective architectures / David G. Victor -- Commentaries on Victor -- 4.1 Incentives and institutions : a bottom-up approach to climate policy / Carlo Carraro -- 4.2 The whole and the sum of its parts / Sheila M. Olmstead -- 5. A credible foundation for long-term international cooperation on climate change / Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen -- Commentaries on McKibbin and Wilcoxen -- 5.1 The case for greater flexibility in an international climate change agreement / Richard D. Morgenstern -- 5.2 Using the development agenda to build climate mitigation support / Jonathan Pershing -- Part III Coordinated and unilateral policies -- 6. A multitrack climate treaty system / Scott Barrett -- Commentaries on Barrett -- 6.1 Beyond Kyoto : learning from the Montreal Protocol / Daniel C. Esty -- 6.2 Climate favela -- Henry D. Jacoby -- 7. Practical global climate policy / William A. Pizer -- Commentaries on Pizer -- 7.1 Is "practical global development policy" sufficient? / James K. Hammitt -- 7.2 An auction mechanism in a climate policy architecture / Juan-Pablo Montero -- Part IV Synthesis and conclusion -- 8. Epilogue : architectures for agreement / Thomas Schelling -- 9. Architectures for an international global climate change agreement : lessons for the policy community / Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins