Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change

By Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo

Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factors - which Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo call the narrative, adding up, and new world problems - the wonder is not the current impasse; it is, rather, the belief that progress might be possible at all.

In this book, the authors argue that any chance of progress must address each of these problems in a radically different way. First, the old narrative of recrimination must cede to a narrative based on recognition of common interests. Second, leaders must shift the focus away from emissions cuts to technology generation. Third, the old cash-for-cuts approach must be abandoned for one that requires contributions from all countries calibrated in magnitude and form to their current level of development and future prospects.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933286679
• ISBN13: 9781933286679
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Center for Global Development
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"