1. Introduction; PART ONE: REVISITING THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE; 2. Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved?; 3. The global deal on climate change; 4. Climate treaties and the imperative of enforcement; 5. The implications of rapid development for emissions and climate-change mitigation; 6. The behavioural economics of climate change; PART TWO: THE GLOBAL PLAYERS AND AGREEMENTS; 7. Climate change and Africa; 8. China's balance of emissions embodied in trade: approaches to measurement and allocating international responsibility; 9. India and climate-change mitigation; 10. Addressing climate change with a comprehensive US cap-and-trade system; 11. EU climate-change policy: a critique; PART THREE: LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES; 12. Nuclear power, climate change, and energy policy; 13. Carbon dioxide capture and storage; 14. Climate-change mitigation from renewable energy: its contribution and cost; 15. The national inventory approach for international forest-carbon sequestration management; 16. On the regulation of geo-engineering; 17. Improving energy efficiency: hidden costs and unintended consequences; PART FOUR: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; 18. Carbon taxes, emissions trading and hybrid schemes; 19. Docking into a global carbon market: Clean Investment Budgets to finance low-carbon economic development; 20. International carbon finance and the Clean Development Mechanism; PART FIVE: INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE; 21. The global climate-change regime: a defence; 22. Governing climate change: lessons from other governance regimes; Bibliography