Global Climate Change Policy

Part 1. Background to the Climate Problem.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Climate Challenge and its Consequences.- 3. Climate Protection Problems and Options for Action.- 4. Global Warming Perspectives.- 5. Perspectives on the Climate Debate and International Economic Aspects.- 6. The Wrong Climate Debate?.- Part 2. What Could Policymakers, Business and Consumers Achieve?.- 7. Climate Protection in the EU: Instruments and International Cooperation Aspects.- 8. Reservations about Climate Protection Issues.- 9. Modernization of the Energy Industry and National Interests.- 10. Climate Protection Policy: 2019 Special Report of the German Council of Economic Experts.- 11. Failures in Carbon Certificates and Emissions Trading Systems?.- 12. Macroeconomic Aspects of CO2 Pricing.- 13. Financial Market Aspects of CO2 Certificate Trading in the European Union.- 14. The Housing and Transport Sectors.- 15. A CO2 Tax as a Sensible Climate Policy Instrument.- Part 3. Multilateralism as a Solution to theClimate Problem .- 16. International Perspectives.- 17. G20 Problems in Climate Protection Policy.- 18. Global EIIW-vita Sustainability Indicator and Green Bonds: Opportunities and Problems.- 19. Weaknesses of the EU Emissions Trading System and Prospects of Linking Emissions Trading Systems and Further Development of the WTO.- Part 4. Concepts and Practical Fields for More Sustainability.- 20. Climate Policy Problems: The Concept of a Sustainable Social Market Economy.- 21. Economic Policy Consequences: Innovation, Mobility Policy and Global Cooperation.- 22. Mobility Policy.- 23. Conclusion: International Cooperation and the Climate Protection Concept.