Global Warming Gridlock (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521865012)

Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warming more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking.

Author: David G. Victor
ISBN-10: 0521865018
ISBN-13: 9780521865012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2011
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011