| Description |
viii, 167 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Economic Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation -- 3. Costs and Benefits of Mitigating Climate Change -- 4. Terrestrial Carbon Sinks -- 5. Ratifying Kyoto: Is it Smoke and Mirrors? -- 6. Why Might Countries Want to Mitigate Climate Change? -- 7. Discussion |
| Summary |
"The book begins by providing the economic foundations for understanding climate change. It examines how Kyoto's flexibility mechanism departs from more efficient and less-costly approaches for reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, and highlights the problems that terrestrial carbon credits pose for emissions trading. Unique case studies of Canada, Japan and The Netherlands indicate that most countries will be unable to meet their own Kyoto obligations. The author then uses an economic analysis of the potential damages to show that even though some countries will experience a detrimental effect from climate change, the majority will actually benefit. In this way, he clearly demonstrates that not only will current policies do little to avert global warming, most countries will also have less incentive to sign up for any future international agreements." |
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"Academics, economists and policymakers involved in the climate change debate will find this succinct yet comprehensive analysis of the economic instruments available for mitigating climate change to be essential reading."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Spine title: Climate change economics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Risk assessment -- International cooperation.
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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
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Environmental policy -- International cooperation.
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| LC no. |
2004040444 |
| ISBN |
1843768127 |
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