Corporate Greenhouse: Climate Change Policy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions »

Yda Schreuder is a professor of Geography and a researcher and graduate student advisor in the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware.

This timely book addresses the political economy of climate change. The author questions the disconnect between the current nation-state based negotiation framework and the forces in the global economy that: are driven by neo-liberal policies, organized around transnational corporations or international production networks and, refute effective climate change policy. With the emergence on the world economic and carbon scene of China and India and several other developing economies, the debate on "who is to blame, and who is to pay" can no longer be ignored. Carefully researched and sourced from original work and case studies, The Corporate Greenhouse argues that failing to account in climate change treaties for the activities of transnational corporations will hinder solutions to global climate change.

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction 1

1 Climate-change Policy in a globalizing world 8

2 From Rio to Kyoto and beyond 33

3 Trade liberalization, economic development and the environment 69

4 The transnational corporation and the global economy 100

5 The EU Emissions Trading Scheme in the corporate greenhouse 122

6 The Clean Development Mechanism in the corporate greenhouse 163

7 Towards a more equitable and sustainable climate-change regime 194

Notes 219

Index 249