This article assesses the advantages and disadvantages of fighting climate change through
local, bottom-up strategies as well as global, top-down approaches. After noting that each …

Climate change and sustainable development have been addressed in largely separate
circles in both research and policy. Nevertheless, there are strong linkages between the two …

Our success in confronting the challenge of global climate change depends in large
measure on the ability of national governments to forge an effective global strategy—one …

This article assesses a wide range of alternative proposals for post-2012 international
climate policy regimes. We believe that these proposals will serve as a basis for debates …

This article describes three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international climate
policy architecture: a framework to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are …

After tentative efforts during the 1990s, the past two decades have seen a rapid increase in
the number of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation policies, initially in a few …

THE UNIQUE combination of features that characterize the climate change problem4iversity
of temporal and spatial scales, complexities of the processes involved, and the multitude of …

Both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change require actions to be taken in many
sectors of society, but so far this is hardly happening. This paper suggests possibilities for …

the policy envelope in a particular context to assess what might be possible in order for
progress to be made, perhaps even expanding the scope of available actions. The failure of …

It has become an accepted wisdom within academic circles and policy discourse that climate
change is a global problem in need of global solutions. More than a decade after the …