Voluntary approaches in climate policy / edited by Andrea Baranzini and Philippe Thalmann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An overview of the economics of voluntary approaches in climate policies / Philippe Thalmann and Andrea Baranzini
Effectiveness of voluntary approaches : implications for climate change mitigation / Madhu Khanna and Donna T. Ramirez
Do voluntary approaches to climate change lead to efficient environmental protection? / Kathleen Segerson and Kristin Roti Jones
Voluntary approaches as climate policy tools : competition issues and the role of market structure / Rinaldo Brau and Carlo Carraro
Self-enforcing voluntary approaches with incomplete information and environmental uncertainty / Alberto Cavaliere
Public voluntary programmes for mitigating climate change / Thomas P. Lyon and John W. Maxwell
Voluntary approaches under uncertainty and irreversibility / Christian Langpap and JunJie Wu
Negotiated agreements and the demand for political legitimacy / Sverre Grepperud and Pål A. Pedersen
The architecture and functioning of Dutch negotiated agreements / Pieter Glasbergen
Energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions : correcting market failures using public voluntary programmes / Richard B. Howarth, Brent M. Haddad, and Bruce Paton
A transaction cost perspective on negotiated agreements : the case of the USEPA XL programme / Magali Delmas and Janice Mazurek
Voluntary approaches and technical regulation in the future development of EU climate policy / Johan Albrecht
The UK climate change levy agreements : combining negotiated agreements with tax and emission trading / Gildas de Muizon and Matthieu Glachant
Swiss climate policy : combining VAs with other instruments under the menace of a CO₂ tax / Andrea Baranzini, Philippe Thalmann and Camille Gonseth
An empirical analysis of the effect of the Danish energy agreements / Thomas B. Bjørner

"Voluntary Approaches in Climate Policy illustrates how corporate voluntarism can be harnessed to mitigate the climatic impact of business, and assesses the economics of VAs at the firm level and in the context of climate policies. It goes on to explore their efficiency and effectiveness, how they compare and combine with other instruments, how they impact competition and why they get adopted." "Highlighting the implications of VAs in policy terms, this book will appeal to economists, social scientists, policymakers and business managers, as well as environmental scientists and practitioners with a specific interest in climate change."--BOOK JACKET