The Institutional Orgins of Transatlantic Discord on Climate ..

Jonathan B. Wiener Professor of Law at Duke Law School, USA
donnera une conférence en anglais : « The Institutional Orgins of Transatlantic Discord on Climate Change »
Cette conférence s’inscrit dans le cadre du séminaire Développement durable et économie de l’environnement, organisé par la chaire Développement durable Ecole polytechnique - EDF et par l’Iddri.

Résumé

Why have Europe and the United States failed to reach agreement on global climate change policy? Professor Wiener will offer perspectives drawn from his sixteen years of experience as an academic expert and a participant in the climate treaty negotiations. He will examine the role of important institutional factors, in particular: (1) the national net benefits to participation perceived by each government, and indeed the use of a benefit-cost framework for analyzing such perceived national net benefits; (2) the design of the climate treaties, including their scope (coverage of gases, sectors and sinks), and their use of
economic incentive instruments, as key factors in national net benefits; (3) ideology or national culture regarding climate,precaution and the environment; and (4) domestic political institutions. Professor Wiener will argue that the discord is not surprising when viewed from these institutional perspectives. He will discuss options for future progress, in a world of not only the US as the largest emitter, but also an enlarging European Union and the growing power of China.

Jonathan B. Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences at Duke, and Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke. >From 2000-05 he served as the founding Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions. Since 2002 he has been a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF), the environmental economics think tank. He has written widely on U.S. and international environmental law and risk regulation, including numerous articles and the books Reconstructing Climate Policy (AEI Press 2003, with Richard B. Stewart) and Risk vs. Risk (Harvard University Press 1995, with John D. Graham). In 2003, he received the Chauncey Starr Young Risk Analyst Award from
the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) for the most exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis by a scholar aged 40 or
under. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Before coming to Duke in 1994, he served in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations, at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and at the Environment Division of the United States Department of Justice. He received his J.D. (1987) from Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.