1 edition of Economics of policy options to address climate change found in the catalog.
Economics of policy options to address climate change
Gregory N. Bartos
Published
2009
by Nova Science Publishers in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [59]-69) and index.
| Statement | Gregory N. Bartos |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HC110.E5 B37 2009 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | vi, 82 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 82 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL24521682M |
| ISBN 10 | 1606921169 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781606921166 |
| LC Control Number | 2009280969 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 277275422 |
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Many participants in the climate change debate — in government, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations — have conducted economic assessments to determine the costs of taking various actions to address climate change, with the number of economic assessments increasing exponentially in recent years.
The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong – and How to Fix It, by Dieter Helm (Yale University Pressrevised & updatedpages, $ paperback). In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy.
This important book by two leading authorities on the economics of climate change policy provides a rigorous assessment of the benefits and costs of alternative U.S.
climate change policies, including a carbon tax, a cap-and-trade program, a clean energy standard, and an increase in federal gasoline taxes. Data and research on climate change including adaptation, climate finance, international climate framework, carbon markets, UNFCCC, cities, flood risk, Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)., Against the background of a projected doubling of world greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, this book explores feasible ways to abate them at least cost.
On the Economics of Climate Policy Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy, and Robert H. Topel Abstract We analyze the central features of economic policies to mitigate climate change. The basic structure of Pigouvian “carbon pricing” is shown to follow from a standard Hotelling problem for the intertemporal pricing of an exhaustible resource.
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TheFile Size: KB. • Present the international climate change legal and policy framework and explain key issues under negotiation. • Describe the expected consequences of climate change and the role of adaptation.
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Cities, climate change and chronic heat exposure. Policy publication by Patrick Curran, Christian Siderius, Tanya Singh on 6 Sep Climate change will lead to increases in the occurrence of chronic heat exposure over longer durations and there is an urgent need to focus on managing the risks this poses, as well as the immediate risks from shorter-lived heat events.
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