Edited by Andrea Baranzini, Geneva School of Business Administration, Switzerland and Philippe Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Contents: Foreword Preface 1. An Overview of the Economics of Voluntary Approaches in Climate Policies 2. Effectiveness of Voluntary Approaches: Implications for Climate Mitigation 3. Do Voluntary Approaches to Climate Change Lead to Efficient Environmental Protection? 4. Voluntary Approaches as Climate Policy Tools: Competition Issues and the Role of Market Structure 5. Self-enforcing Voluntary Approaches with Incomplete Information and Environmental Uncertainty 6. Public Voluntary Programmes for Mitigating Climate Change 7. Voluntary Approaches under Uncertainty and Irreversibility 8. Negotiated Agreements and the Demand for Political Legitimacy 9. The Architecture and Functioning of Dutch Negotiated Agreements 10. Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Correcting Market Failures Using Public Voluntary Programmes 11. A Transaction Cost Perspective on Negotiated Agreements: The Case of the USEPA XL Programme 12. Voluntary Approaches and Technical Regulation in the Future Development of EU Climate Policy 13. The UK Climate Change Levy Agreements: Combining Negotiated Agreements with Tax and Emission Trading 14. Swiss Climate Policy: Combining VAs with Other Instruments under the Menace of a CO2 Tax 15. An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the Danish Energy Agreements Index
