National Climate Policies and the Kyoto Protocol (Sustainable development)

Foreword
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
	Box: Climate Change Requires Integrated Policy Responses
1. Introduction
	Table 1. UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties : A Chronology
	Aim and approach
2. The Policy Challenge
	Climate change and sustainable development
		Box 1. Key Features of the Kyoto Protocol
		Table 2. Annex 1 countries and their commitments
	International developments
		Table 3. EU Burden-Sharing Agreement
	Costs of responding to climate change
3. Trends: Emissions and Policies
	Emission trends: OECD 19901996
		Table 4. Overview of national emission trends, Kyoto objectives and EU Burden-Sharing
		Figure 1. 1996 OECD greenhouse gas emissions by sector
		Figure 2. 1996 OECD greenhouse gas emissions by gas
		Figure 3. OECD CO2 and N2O emissions from transport
		Table 5. 1995/6 Removals from Land-Use Change and Forestry (LUCF)
		Box 2. Global Population, Economic, Energy and CO2 Trends, 19711995
			Figure 4. Contributors to global CO2 emission changes, 1971-1995
	OECD and global trends: CO2 and energy
		Figure 5. World CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by region
		Figure 6.  Trends in energy intensity of GDP by world regions, 1971-1995
		Figure 7. CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use in OECD Member countries
	Policy trends
		Box 3. A Baseline Scenario through 2010
		Figure 8. Decomposition of carbon emissions by region
		Figure 9. Growth and decomposition of carbon emissions by source
		Box 4. Multiple policy objectives and early climate change strategies in OECD countries
		Table 6. Policy-relevant features of emission sectors and main policy developments by sector
		Box 5. Renewable Energy Policies
4. Framework for Mitigation Policy
	Getting the prices right
		Table 7. Changes in support levels in OECD countries
		Box 6. Electricity, regulatory reform and the environment
		Box 7. Carbon taxes in Nordic countries
		Figure 10. Shares in total revenues from environmental taxes
	Putting markets to work: domestic tradable permits for greenhouse gas reduction
	Other policies in the mix
		Box 8. Examples of environmental technology diffusion schemes
		Box 9. Education and the link to sustainable development
	Monitoring and assessing performance
	Institutions for change
		Box 10. Rapid evolution of climate policies in the United Kingdom
	Fostering international cooperation
		Box 11. Carbon Charges on Aviation Fuels
5. Conclusions
	Framework for mitigation policy
	Moving forward
Notes
References
List of Boxes
	Box: Climate Change Requires Integrated Policy Responses
	Box 1.  Key Features of the Kyoto Protocol
	Box 2.  Global Population, Economic, Energy and CO2 Trends, 1971 1995
	Box 3.  A Baseline Scenario through 2010
	Box 4.  Multiple policy objectives and early climate change strategies in OECD countries
	Box 5.  Renewable Energy Policies
	Box 6.  Electricity, regulatory reform and the environment
	Box 7.  Carbon taxes in Nordic countries
	Box 8.  Examples of environmental technology diffusion schemes
	Box 9.  Education and the link to sustainable development
	Box 10.  Rapid evolution of climate policies in the United Kingdom
	Box 11.  Carbon Charges on Aviation Fuels
List of Tables
	Table 1.  UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties : A Chronology
	Table 2.  Annex 1 countries and their commitments
	Table 3.  EU Burden-Sharing Agreement
	Table 4.  Overview of national emission trends, Kyoto objectives and EU Burden-Sharing
	Table 5.  1995/6 Removals from Land-Use Change and Forestry (LUCF)
	Table 6.  Policy-relevant features of emission sectors and main policy developments by sector
	Table 7.  Changes in support levels in OECD countries
List of Figures
	Figure 1.  1996 OECD greenhouse gas emissions by sector
	Figure 2.  1996 OECD greenhouse gas emissions by gas
	Figure 3.  OECD CO2 and N2O emissions from transport
	Figure 4.  Contributors to global CO2 emission changes, 1971-1995
	Figure 5.  World CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by region
	Figure 6.  Trends in energy intensity of GDP by world regions, 1971-1995
	Figure 7.  CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use in OECD Member countries
	Figure 8.  Decomposition of carbon emissions by region
	Figure 9.  Growth and decomposition of carbon emissions by source
	Figure 10.  Shares in total revenues from environmental taxes