Includes bibliographical references and index.

Key instrumental and institutional design issues in climate change policy / Michael Faure, Joyeeta Gupta and Andries Nentjes -- The Kyoto mechanisms and the economics of their design / Luke Brander -- Alternative design options for emissions trading : a survey and assessment of the literature / Jan-Tjeerd Boom and Andries Nentjes -- To design and implement climate change measures and the need to strike a balance between environmental protection and international trade law / David Grimeaud -- Developing carbon trading in Europe : does grandfathering distort competition and lead to state aid? / Edwin Woerdman -- Legal aspects of the Dutch approach to CO2 reduction / Chris Backes and Reinske Teuben -- Legal feasibility of emissions trading : learning points from emissions trading for ozone-depleting substances / Marjan Peeters -- CDM in climate policies in the Netherlands : a promising tool? / Rianne de Leeuw and Ekko C. van Ierland -- Optimal institutional arrangement and instruments for the promotion of energy from renewable sources / Jan C. Bongaerts and George Dogbe -- Domestic capacity, regional institution and global negotiations : lessons from the Netherlands-EU Kyoto Protocol negotiation / Norichika Kanie -- Global environmental change regimes : impact assessment on the basis of an extended GTAP model / Shunli Wang, Peter Nijkamp and Onno Kuik -- The multi-sector convergence approach to global burden sharing of greenhouse gas reductions / Jos J.C. Bruggink -- The Dutch energy transition and its institutional problems : report from a stakeholder assessment / Matthijs Hisschem oller -- Modulating dynamics in transport for climate protection / Ren e Kemp and Ellen Moors -- Institutional change in Europe and the implications for climate control measures / Graham Bennett.