A volume summarizing the key lessons from one of the world's most important projects on climate change.

International Advisory Board, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Faculty Steering Committee, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements; Management, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction and overview; Lessons for the International Policy Community; References; Appendix 1. Summaries of research initiatives, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements; Part I. Alternative International Policy Architectures: 1. An elaborated proposal for global climate policy architecture: specific formulas and emission targets for all countries in all decades; 2. The EU emission trading scheme: a prototype global system?; 3. Linkage of tradable permit systems in international climate policy architecture; 4. The case for charges on greenhouse gas emissions; 5. Towards a global compact for managing climate change; 6. Sectoral approaches to a post-Kyoto international climate policy framework; 7. A portfolio system of climate treaties; Part II. Negotiation, Assessment, and Compliance: 8. How to negotiate and update climate agreements; 9. Metrics for evaluating policy commitments in a fragmented world: the challenges of equity and integrity; 10. Justice and climate change; 11. Toward a post-Kyoto climate change architecture: a political analysis; Part III. The Role and Means of Technology Transfer: 12. International climate technology strategies; 13. Mitigation through resource transfers to developing countries: expanding greenhouse gas offsets; 14. Possible development of a technology clean development mechanism in a post 2012 regime; Part IV. Global Climate Policy and International Trade: 15. Global environment and trade policy; 16. A proposal for the design of the successor to the Kyoto protocol; Part V. Economic Development, Adaptation, and Deforestation: 17. Reconciling human development and climate protection: a multi-stage hybrid climate policy architecture; 18. What do we expect from an international climate agreement? A perspective from a low-income country; 19. Climate accession deals: new strategies for taming growth of greenhouse gases in developing countries; 20. Policies for developing country engagement; 21. International forest carbon sequestration in a post-Kyoto agreement; Part VI. Modeling Impacts of Alternative Allocations of Responsibility: 22. Modeling economic impacts of alternative international climate policy architectures: a quantitative and comparative assessment of architectures for agreement; 23. Sharing the burden of GHG reductions; 24. When technology and climate policy meet: energy technology in an international policy context; 25. Revised emissions projections for China: why post-Kyoto climate policy must look east; 26. Expecting the unexpected: macroeconomic volatility and climate policy; Part VII. Epilogue: 27. Epilogue: implementing architectures for agreement; Appendix 2. Selected list of individuals consulted, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements; Appendix 3. Workshops and conferences, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements; Appendix 4. Glossary and abbreviations.