Blueprint 4 looks at the opportunities for using market forces for environmental ends. In particular, it continues the theme of Blueprint 2 in dealing with the global environment, and looks at a range of possible imaginative 'global bargains', which give all parties a self-interested incentive to improve the environment.
The book begins by reviewing the principle global issues to be addressed, and then explains the mechanisms of resource degradation: how economic systems fail, the operation of trade on the environment and the effects of population growth and consumption patterns. It then shows how environmental value can be captured, and the basis, means and institutions for doing so.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Climate change
Biodiversity
The causes of environmental degradation
Appropriating global value: official resource flows
The Global Environment Facility
Private and public global deals
Reforming world trade