Efficiency And Equity Of Climate Change Policy

Author : Carlo Carraro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401594844

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Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy by Carlo Carraro Pdf

Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy is a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of climate change policy, addressing the issues with a quantitative modelling approach. The book thus goes beyond the usual statements on the efficiency of economic instruments to identify the way gains and losses are distributed; who gains and who loses. Both the costs and benefits of climate change policies are analyzed. Most papers also provide useful information on the economic features of the Kyoto Protocol, its possible extensions, and the effect of different implementation strategies (such as the debate on emissions trading ceilings). Readership: Scientists and policy makers, students and specialists in climate related industries, members of NGOs, and policy advisors.

Author : Stine Aakre
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9789290798163

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Adaptation to Climate Change in the European Union by Stine Aakre Pdf

Author : C. J. Jepma,Mohan Munasinghe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521596882

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Climate Change Policy by C. J. Jepma,Mohan Munasinghe Pdf

This book concisely sets out the main issues and risks involved in attempting to mitigate climate change.

Author : Carlo Carraro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401594856

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Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy by Carlo Carraro Pdf

Author : Ferenc L. Tóth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134187133

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Fair Weather by Ferenc L. Tóth Pdf

Is a unique, cross-disciplinary assessment of fairness and equity issues in the context of global climate change - a crucial dimension in current international negotiations - written by a collection of leading scientists in economics, sociology and social psychology, ethics, international law and political science. How should responsibility for adapting to climate change be distributed? Who should bear the costs of mitigating its impacts and how should these costs be measured? Answers to these questions differ, often according to the vulnerability, wealth and level of industrial development of the country. Finding a fair solution is controversial, but crucial to the complex and vital negotiations over global warming. This illuminating and accessible volume explores the policy dimensions and analytical needs of the negotiation process. It is essential reading for policy makers and students and teachers of economics, sociology and social psychology, ethics, international relations, law and political science. FERENC L TOTH is project leader at the Department of Global Change and Social Systems at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany. CONTRIBUTORS H Asbjorn Aaheim Frank Biermann Samuel Fankhauser Carsten Helm Juliane Kokott Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer Volker Linneweber Elizabeth L Malone Shuzo Nishioka Originally published in 1999 David W Pearce Steve Rayner P R Shukla Dominik Thieme Michael Thompson Richard S J Tol David G Victor

Author : Graciela Chichilnisky,Geoffrey Heal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231504470

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Environmental Markets by Graciela Chichilnisky,Geoffrey Heal Pdf

Markets are increasingly central to the resolution of environmental problems. They played a critical role in implementing the 1990 Clean Air Act of the United States, which has been instrumental in reducing acid rain in a cost-effective manner. They are also central to the global strategy adopted for limiting the emissions of greenhouse gases under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and are being used for resolving conflicts over the use of other environmental resources, particularly water. Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency represents the first systematic and in-depth study of the economic issues raised by this growing use of environmental markets. Focusing on the relationship between equity and efficiency—which is central to many of the debates between industrial and developing countries—the book explores the underlying economics and the possibilities for win-win solutions that benefit all parties to the problems. Graciela Chichilnisky and Geoffrey Heal have been instrumental in developing the economic understanding required for the operation of environmental markets and for promoting their use among policy makers leading to the Kyoto Protocol. Contributors to this volume include established experts from international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and academia, including Raúl Estrada-Oyuela, who chaired the negotiating committee of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto meetings.

Author : Olav Hohmeyer,Klaus Rennings
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642470356

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Man-Made Climate Change by Olav Hohmeyer,Klaus Rennings Pdf

As the Kyoto conference of the parties on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change once again underscored, man-made climate change has become one of the major challenges to our generation and many generations to come. Since scientific evidence on climate change can be seen as increasingly reliable, the focus of our attention has to turn more and more to the question of foreseeable damages and to possibilities to prevent and mitigate climate change. In other words, we need to analyse the economic aspects of man marle climate change and the policy options to prevent its most severe impacts. This book reports on the findings of an international workshop on these aspects of global climate change. It was organised by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany on March 6th and 7th 1997. In the light of the ongoing international policy-making process on climate change, we decided to publish the report after the Kyoto conference from December Ist to 10th, 1997, to include the results of the conference, which emphasise the importance of economic aspects and economic policy options when it comes to addressing the problern of man-made climate change. Thus, this book went to press in February 1998 the moment we received the official version of the Kyoto Protocol, which is reproduced in the annex.

Author : Dieter Helm
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191535871

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Climate Change Policy by Dieter Helm Pdf

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. Although the Kyoto Protocol has now been ratified by Russia and hence come into legal effect, the USA, China, and India are all outside its emissions caps. Few European countries are on course to meet their own national targets, and even if fully implemented, it is widely acknowledged that the Kyoto Protocol would make little difference to the carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. In consequence, there is a search for a post-Kyoto framework, new institutions, and new economic policies to spread the costs and meet them in an economically efficient way. Carbon taxes and emissions trading are, in particular, being established in a number of developing countries. This volume provides an accessible overview of the economics of climate change, the policy options, and the scope for making significant carbon reductions.

Author : William D. Nordhaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135892784

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Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change by William D. Nordhaus Pdf

Although the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol focused world attention on the global climate, it was just one step in the ongoing process of addressing climate change in all its facets. Research by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been ongoing since 1988. An extensive IPCC Working Group report published in 1995 examined the economic and social aspects of climate change. In this volume, eminent analysts assess that IPCC report and address the questions that emerge from it. The result is an instructive and cogent look at the realities of climate change and some methods (and difficulties) of dealing with them. William Nordhaus's introduction establishes the context for the book. It provides basic scientific background on climate change, reviews the IPCC's activities, and explains the genesis of the analyses. Subsequent contributions fall into two categories. Early chapters review analytical issues critical to social and economic understanding of climate change. A second set of chapters address specific economic questions surrounding climate-change policy. The result is an original and significant contribution to the evolving debate on this crucial hot-button topic.

Author : Stine Aakre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290235433

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Adaptation to Climate Change in the European Union by Stine Aakre Pdf

EU climate policy based on GHG emissions reduction (mitigation) is coupled with measures aimed at responding efficiently to the unavoidable consequences of climate change (adaptation). However, as the European Commission stated recently in its Green Paper on adaptation in Europe, there is still need to develop an overall EU adaptation strategy. Moreover, such a strategy should take into consideration both efficiency and equity concerns. In this article we propose a framework for EU adaptation policy that addresses both concerns and which enables a transparent decision-making process. In the proposed scheme universal weightings of the individual policy objectives have to be agreed upon prior to actual decision-making.

Author : Ian Gough
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781785365119

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Heat, Greed and Human Need by Ian Gough Pdf

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sustainable development and social justice. Beyond ‘green growth’ (which assumes an unprecedented rise in the emissions efficiency of production) it envisages two further policy stages vital for rich countries: a progressive ‘recomposition’ of consumption, and a post-growth ceiling on demand. An essential resource for scholars and policymakers.

Author : Luiz Pinguelli Rosa,Mohan Munasinghe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1781957223

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Ethics, Equity, and International Negotiations on Climate Change by Luiz Pinguelli Rosa,Mohan Munasinghe Pdf

"Greenhouse gas emissions are widely considered to be the ultimate environmental externality and consequently a topic of great contemporary concern. This treatment of the important issues will be welcomed by climate change negotiators, policymakers, and economic, environmental and social researchers. It will also be of interest to anyone who believes that the negotiation process may benefit from a more deep-rooted shift in social attitudes and beliefs."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael A. Toman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136525148

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Climate Change Economics and Policy by Michael A. Toman Pdf

What are the potential adverse impacts of climate change? How can society determine the amount of protection against climate change that is warranted, given the benefits and costs of various policies? In concise, informative chapters, Climate Economics and Policy considers the key issues involved in one of the most important policy debates of our time. Beginning with an overview and policy history, it explores the potential impact of climate change on a variety of domains, including water resources, agriculture, and forests. The contributors then provide assessments of policies that will affect greenhouse gas emissions, including electricity restructuring, carbon sequestration in forests, and early reduction programs. In considering both domestic and international policy options, the authors examine command and control strategies, energy efficiency opportunities, taxes, emissions trading, subsidy reform, and inducements for technological progress. Both policymakers and the general public will find this volume to be a convenient and authoritative guide to climate change risk and policy. It is a useful resource for professional education programs, and an important addition for college courses in environmental economics and environmental studies. Climate Economics and Policy is a collection of Issue Briefs, prepared by the staff of Resources for the Future (RFF) and outside experts. Many are adapted from pieces originally disseminated on Weathervane, RFF‘s acclaimed web site on global climate change.

Author : Mary E. Pettenger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317015840

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The Social Construction of Climate Change by Mary E. Pettenger Pdf

Individuals, international organizations and states are calling for the world to confront climate change. Efforts such as the Kyoto Protocol have produced intractable disputes and are deemed inadequate. This volume adopts two constructivist perspectives - norm-centred and discourse - to explore the social construction of climate change from a broad, theoretical level to particular cases. The contributors contend that climate change must be understood from the context of social settings, and that we ignore at our peril how power and knowledge structures are generated. They offer a greater understanding of why current efforts to mitigate climate change have failed and provide academics and policy makers with a new understanding of this important topic.

Author : Frank Ackerman,Elizabeth A. Stanton
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783080243

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Climate Change and Global Equity by Frank Ackerman,Elizabeth A. Stanton Pdf

Ambitious measures to reduce carbon emissions are all too rare in reality, impeded by economic and political concerns rather than technological advances. In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse than the cost of ambitious climate policies.