Gjalt Huppes is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
"""This extraordinary book offers our civilization an epochal choice between two distinct political and policy pathways to combat disastrous climate change. Huppes provides a brilliant, confidence-inspiring synthesis of political, environmental, and policy analysis."" -- Robert A. Kagan, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Law, University of California, Berkeley, USA ""This book gives a refreshing view on climate policy – using a true system perspective, and going back to the historical roots of the organization of current society. Gjalt Huppes, someone who I know is always looking for linking all kind of science fields, at his best."" -- Arnold Tukker, Director CML at Leiden University, Netherlands ""This book on effective climate policy instrumentation is of immense depth of thought, written by an author of deep knowledge, with encompassing views and integrative concepts of both social and economic sciences. It comes very much in time to implement the Paris Agreement."" -- Udo E. Simonis, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy, Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB), Germany ""This book gives a delightful guide for rethinking and redesigning national and international climate policy instrumentation. Gjalt Huppes provides a persuasive political system-level analysis for calling resilient pathways to zero emission society and its governance. I believe it would be very important for both policy makers and industries."" -- Yoshinori Kobayashi, Environmental Policy Officer at Toshiba, Japan ""Huppes’ view rightly poses climate political economy in a broad and rich political sciences realm, where various institutional functions and governance settings are scrutinized. Decentralized policy making, which assumes in the real world diversified shapes, is critically proposed as the pathway to achieve effective, efficient and espec"