Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System: Continuing Kyoto Commitsments or a Global ?Cap and Trade? Scheme for a Sustainable Climate Pol [Paperback]

This book shows how humankind can prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system without dangerous interference with the global economic system. In the two underlying studies on behalf of the Ministry of Environment and Transport of i the German federal state of Baden-W?rttemberg, the results have been elaborated through scientific evaluation of different climate protection systems and intensive developmental work on an efficient climate protection system. The results will be presented in nine chapters according to the following nine basic R&D steps: 1. Quantifying the ultimate climate objective of the world community in order to prevent dangerous interference with the climate system, thus achieving climate sustainability; 2. Development of a comprehensive standard system for evaluating the prospect of success for different climate protection systems; 3. Based on this scientific standard system, evaluation of the current Kyoto system and of the most important proposals for incremental regime evolution of the Kyoto system. Unfortunately, it must be noted that these systems are incapable of achi- ing climate sustainability; 4. Evaluating three proposals for structural regime change of the Kyoto system. Following this objective evaluation process and numeric comparison of the diff- ent proposals, 5. Description of the eight basic elements of GCCS and its in-depth critical asse- ment; 6.A Clear-Cut and Quantified Criterion for a Successful Global Climate Policy.- A Comprehensive Standard System for Evaluating the Prospect of Success of Different Climate Protection Systems.- Evaluation of the Existing Kyoto System and the Most Important Incremental Evolution Proposals to Reach EUs Minimum Target for Climate Sustainability.- Structural Regime Change in the Kyoto/UNFCCC System Through Price or Cap and Trade Incentive Systems for Climate Sustainability.- The Basic Concept of an Application-Orientated Global Climate Certificate System, GCCS (Eight lã