International Environmental Policy
Subtitle: Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing; Edward Elgar Pub.
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781840648188
Subjects: Geopolitics; Pollution & threats to the environment; Political Science; Environmental Studies; Politics/International Relations; Environmental Science; Public Policy - General; Environmental policy; Environmental risk assessment; Government policy; Greenhouse gases; International cooperation
Description: "The Kyoto Protocol has singularly failed to shape international environmental policy-making in the way that the earlier Montreal Protocol had done. 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." "This book takes a look at the political motivations that underpin the global warming debate, and will appeal to political scientists and energy policy analysts as well as anyone with an interest in the future of the environment and in the politics we create to protect it."--Jacket.