Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world

Jean Charles Hourcade (), Sandrine Mathy and P. R. Shukla
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Jean Charles Hourcade: CIRED - centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
P. R. Shukla: IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

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Abstract: Combating climate change cannot but be a cooperative venture amongst nations. Together with the problem posed by the withdrawal of the US from the Kyoto Protocol, the key challenge for winning the battle is the involvement of developing countries in efforts to alter their GHGs emissions trends. This involvement is necessary technically but also politically to bring the largest emitter of the planet back on the battle field. In the first section we draw on history to outline the intellectual underpinning of North/South divide around climate affairs. In the second section we show the economic basis for a leverage effect between development and climate policies. The third section ventures to propose some guidance to develop a viable climate regime strong enough to support an ambitious effort to decarbonize economies and we show that the Kyoto framework, once re-interpreted and amended is not so far from this working drawing.

Keywords: politique climatique; developpement; climate policy; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-07-22
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Published in The design of climate policy, Jul 2005, Venise, Italy

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Working Paper: Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world (2008)
Working Paper: Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world (2005)
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