Negotiating to Avoid “Dangerous” Climate Change

Scott Barrett

Chapter 7 in The Global Development of Policy Regimes to Combat Climate Change, 2014, pp 159-180 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Ever since the Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in 1992, negotiation of emission limits has been intertwined with efforts to define a threshold for “dangerous” climate change. In this chapter, I explain the logic behind this framing of the collective action problem; show why this framing has failed to limit emissions so as to avoid “dangerous” climate change; and, finally, propose an alternative framing that can be expected to achieve more collective action.

Keywords: Climate Change; International Negotiation; Participation; COP21; UNFCCC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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