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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007
Climate Change 2007: Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change
Contents13

Chapter 13: Policies, instruments, and co-operative arrangements

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

13.1 Introduction

13.1.1 Types of policies, measures, instruments and co-operative arrangements

13.1.2 Criteria for policy choice

13.2 National policy instruments, their implementation and interactions

13.2.1 Climate change and other related policies

13.2.2 Linking national policies

13.3 International climate change agreements and other arrangements

13.3.1 Evaluations of existing climate change agreements

13.3.2 Elements of international agreements and related instruments

13.3.3 Proposals for climate change agreements

13.3.4 Evaluating international climate change agreements

13.4 Insights from and interactions with private, local and non-governmental initiatives

13.4.1 Sub-national initiatives

13.4.2 Corporate and NGO actions

13.4.3 Litigation related to climate change

13.4.4 Interactions between private, local and non-governmental initiatives and national/international efforts

13.5 Implications for global climate change policy

REFERENCES

Coordinating Lead Authors:

Sujata Gupta (India) and Dennis A. Tirpak (USA)

Lead Authors:

Nicholas Burger (USA), Joyeeta Gupta (The Netherlands), Niklas Höhne (Germany), Antonina Ivanova Boncheva (Mexico), Gorashi Mohammed Kanoan (Sudan), Charles Kolstad (USA), Joseph A. Kruger (USA), Axel Michaelowa (Germany), Shinya Murase (Japan), Jonathan Pershing (USA), Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Japan), Agus Sari (Indonesia)

Contributing Authors:

Michel den Elzen (The Netherlands), Hongwei Yang (PR China)

Review Editors:

Erik Haites (Canada), Ramon Pichs (Cuba)

This chapter should be cited as:

Gupta, S., D. A. Tirpak, N. Burger, J. Gupta, N. Höhne, A. I. Boncheva, G. M. Kanoan, C. Kolstad, J. A. Kruger, A. Michaelowa, S. Murase, J. Pershing, T. Saijo, A. Sari, 2007: Policies, Instruments and Co-operative Arrangements. In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A. Meyer (eds)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.