A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol

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Published: June 2007

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Robert Stavins and Sheila Olmstead propose ways to modify the Kyoto Protocol for its second commitment period (2012–2016) so that it will provide a way forward that is scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic.

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