- Title Pages
- Prologue
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Defining Global Public Goods
- Intergenerational Public Goods
- The Political Economy of International Cooperation
- Case Studies
- Equity and Justice
- Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework
- Distributive Justice as an International Public Good
- Global Justice
- Market Efficiency
- Deep Integration and Trade Agreements
- International Financial Instability
- Environment and Cultural Heritage
- Montreal versus Kyoto
- New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods
- Cultural Heritage as Public Good
- Health
- Global Epidemiological Surveillance
- Health as a Global Public Good
- Knowledge and Information
- Knowledge as a Global Public Good
- Global Communications for a More Equitable World
- The Public Face of Cyberspace
- Peace and Security
- Preventing Deadly Conflict
- Peace as a Global Public Good
- International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid
- Regional Public Goods in International Assistance
- Global Public Goods
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- About the Contributors
- Index
Montreal versus Kyoto
Montreal versus Kyoto
International Cooperation and the Global Environment
- Chapter:
- (p.192) Montreal versus Kyoto
- Source:
- Global Public Goods
- Author(s):
Scott Barrett (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The world of public goods has changed radically in the past quarter century, rendering some textbook discussions and examples quite dated. This is a good time to take a fresh look at both the nature of public goods and the policy options for managing their provision. Privatization and technological advances have combined to change the very nature of public goods provision in many respects. In the environmental field, in addition, there exists a growing volume of privately produced global public bads, such as pollution. In response, Heal suggests using markets to foster the private provision of public goods. If properly structured, markets can solve the problems posed by this type of good. The chapter describes how a global market in pollution permits could reduce pollution levels while assuring an efficient and equitable distribution of the costs of emission reductions. In a second example of the power of markets to overcome cooperation dilemmas, Heal describes how early actions by large firms or countries can accelerate environmental reforms by smaller actors through a process of adoption spillovers.
Keywords: adoption spillovers, environment, global public goods, international environmental treaties, market, provision of public goods, technological change
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- Title Pages
- Prologue
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Defining Global Public Goods
- Intergenerational Public Goods
- The Political Economy of International Cooperation
- Case Studies
- Equity and Justice
- Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework
- Distributive Justice as an International Public Good
- Global Justice
- Market Efficiency
- Deep Integration and Trade Agreements
- International Financial Instability
- Environment and Cultural Heritage
- Montreal versus Kyoto
- New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods
- Cultural Heritage as Public Good
- Health
- Global Epidemiological Surveillance
- Health as a Global Public Good
- Knowledge and Information
- Knowledge as a Global Public Good
- Global Communications for a More Equitable World
- The Public Face of Cyberspace
- Peace and Security
- Preventing Deadly Conflict
- Peace as a Global Public Good
- International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid
- Regional Public Goods in International Assistance
- Global Public Goods
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- About the Contributors
- Index
