A "No Regrets" Environmental Policy

Gray, C. Boyden; join(, David B. Rivkin

doi:10.2307/1148717

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“…The Response Strategies WG 111, under the chairmanship of the United States, was charged with considering "legal" issues as part of its broader agenda. The United States continually used the IPCC as an instrument to demonstrate the efficacy of U.S. domestic efforts and the absence of any urgency for further action (Banatt-Brown, Hajost, & Sterne, 1993, p. 107;Gray & Rivkin, 1991;Hatch, 1993). The tolerable rates heuristic approach was brought from the Villach Group to IPCC WG In by Pier Vellinga, who served on both bodies.…”

Section: The Backlashmentioning

confidence: 99%

International Institutions and Social Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risks

Haas¹

2000

Policy Studies Journal

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This article investigates the role played by formal international institutions in the broader process of international efforts to respond to and manage global and transboundary environmental risks. Because few international institutions are designed to deal with the broad nature of environmental risks, it focuses on institutional learning. By analyzing the experiences of the United Nations Environment Program, World Meteorological Organization, and other international institutions involved with global warming, this article identifies institutional properties (or functions) that encourage or inhibit social learning in the management of global environmental risks by international institutions, and that influence the adoption of such lessons by their constituent members.

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Section: The Backlashmentioning

confidence: 99%

International Institutions and Social Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risks

Haas¹

2000

Policy Studies Journal

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“…This approach holds that the risks of climate change warrant implementation of initiatives that will pay. dividends no matter what the future climate, but that bold initiatives should await firmer scientific grounds (Gray and Rivkin, 1991). A final approach advocates that we "wait and see" what happens and that no steps be taken until scientific certainty about the timing, distribution, and severity of future climate change has been established.…”

Section: Emissions Abatement: Measures and Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%