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Economic choices in a warming world / Christian de Perthuis.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Edition: English edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139224154
  • 1139224158
  • 9781139217637
  • 1139217631
  • 9780511753619
  • 0511753616
Uniform titles:
  • Et pour quelques degrés de plus. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Economic choices in a warming world.DDC classification:
  • 363.738/74 22
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.G56 P475 2011eb
Other classification:
  • BUS099000
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Manaus opera house -- Climate risk -- Some like it hot: adaptation to climate change -- Building a low-carbon energy future -- Pricing carbon: the economics of cap-and-trade -- Intensifying agricultural to safeguard forests -- The price of carbon: the economics of projects -- Macroeconomic impacts: sharing carbon rent -- International climate change negotiations -- Conclusion: both action and inaction entail risks -- Appendix 1. Thirty key readings -- Appendix 2. Thirty key sets of figures -- Appendix 3. Greenhouse gas emissions in the world.
Summary: "Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't take into account the policies that have already been implemented. Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative new perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their emissions and building an international carbon market"-- Provided by publisher.
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"The English version of this book is the translation of the second edition of Et pour quelques degrés de plus, translated by Michael Westlake"--Page [v].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Manaus opera house -- Climate risk -- Some like it hot: adaptation to climate change -- Building a low-carbon energy future -- Pricing carbon: the economics of cap-and-trade -- Intensifying agricultural to safeguard forests -- The price of carbon: the economics of projects -- Macroeconomic impacts: sharing carbon rent -- International climate change negotiations -- Conclusion: both action and inaction entail risks -- Appendix 1. Thirty key readings -- Appendix 2. Thirty key sets of figures -- Appendix 3. Greenhouse gas emissions in the world.

"Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't take into account the policies that have already been implemented. Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative new perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their emissions and building an international carbon market"-- Provided by publisher.

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