Chapter 8: From Theory to Practice: Climate Policy and Political Feasibility

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Political Feasibility

• Carbon Pricing

  • North American carbon taxes

  • Clinton's energy tax

  • BC carbon tax

  • Canadian federal carbon tax

  • North American cap-and-trade system

  • Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

  • Western Climate Initiative

  • European carbon pricing

  • The EU Emissions Trading Scheme

  • Key design features of the EU ETS

    • Phase I: 2005–2007

    • Phase II: The allocation battle

    • Into Phase III

• Regulations and Standard Setting

• Discussion

  • Policy evolution

  • Policy framing

  • Non-state actors

  • Collective action

  • Institutional structure

• References