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International Environmental Policy

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  • Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
  • Aynsley Kellow

Abstract

The Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal protocol did. Whereas Montreal placed reliance on the force of science and moralistic injunctions to save the planet, and successfully determined the international response to climate change, Kyoto has proved significantly more problematic. International Environmental Policy considers why this is the case. The authors contend that such arguments on this occasion proved inadequate to the task, not just because the core issues of the Kyoto process were subject to more powerful and conflicting interests than previously, and the science too uncertain, but because the science and moral arguments themselves remained too weak. They argue that ‘global warming’ is a failing policy construct because it has served to benefit limited but undeclared interests that were sustained by green beliefs rather than robust scientific knowledge.

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  • Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen & Aynsley Kellow, 2002. "International Environmental Policy," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 2532.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eebook:2532
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    Cited by:

    1. John W. Zillman, 2007. "Some Observations on the IPCC Assessment Process 1988–2007," Energy & Environment, , vol. 18(7), pages 869-891, December.
    2. Thomas M. Kane, 2007. "Hot Planet, Cold Wars," Energy & Environment, , vol. 18(5), pages 533-548, September.
    3. Thomas Hickmann, 2014. "Science–policy interaction in international environmental politics: an analysis of the ozone regime and the climate regime," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 16(1), pages 21-44, January.
    4. Oran Young, 2004. "Institutions and the Growth of Knowledge: Evidence from International Environmental Regimes," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 4(2), pages 215-228, June.
    5. Ivan Jankovic, 2008. "The Eco-Industrial Complex in USA — Global Warming and Rent-Seeking Coalitions," Energy & Environment, , vol. 19(7), pages 941-958, December.
    6. Weidner, Helmut, 2005. "Global equity versus public interest? The case of climate change policy in Germany," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Civil Society and Transnational Networks SP IV 2005-102, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    7. Aynsley Kellow, 2008. "Australia's Role in International Climate Negotiations: Kyoto and beyond," Energy & Environment, , vol. 19(1), pages 43-54, January.
    8. K. Ya. Kondratyev & John Surrey & Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, 2003. "Book Review: Taken by Storm. The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, World energy, technology and climate policy outlook 2030, ‘Nuclear energy and the Kyoto Protocol’," Energy & Environment, , vol. 14(6), pages 905-916, November.
    9. John W. Zillman, 2008. "Australian Participation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change," Energy & Environment, , vol. 19(1), pages 21-42, January.
    10. K. Ya. Kondratyev, 2004. "Key Aspects of Global Climate Change," Energy & Environment, , vol. 15(3), pages 469-503, July.

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    Keywords

    Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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