We critically review the Kyoto Protocol and thirteen alternative policy architectures for addressing the threat of global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of...

The comparability of domestic actions to mitigate global climate change has important implications for the stability, equity, and efficiency of international climate agreements. We examine a variety of metrics that could be used to evaluate countries' climate change mitigation effort and...

Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement Research from the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Edited by JOSEPH E. ALDY and ROBERT N. STAVINS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents Harvard Environmental Economics Program, ...