Consumptionbased Approaches In International Climate Policy

This book analyses the potentials and consequences of a change from productionbased to consumptionbased approaches in international climate policy. With the help of an analytical model the author investigates the effects of different policy variants on environmental effectiveness costeffectiveness carbon leakage competitiveness and the global distribution of income. The economic legal and political background and the often contradictory findings on consumptionbased approaches are reviewed in