Large, irreversible changes in climate may have a major effect on the economies of the world. The social costs of climate change will vary dramatically from country to country. This landmark assessment from Working Group III of the IPCC addresses the costs of climate change, both in terms of society and equity issues, and the economic burden of combating adverse climate change. The editors assess the response options, the applicability of cost-benefit analysis to climate change, and the costs faced by the many countries committed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000. This exhaustive analysis will be invaluable for the international community of policy makers concerned with the consequences of climate change.
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"This book represents a unique effort by contributors from 29 countries under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to pull together all that is known about the likely social and economic impact of climate change over the next century or so....It stands as a relatively compact statement on the current state of policy analysis, and how to apply it in this particular area of public decision making." Foreign Affairs
"Climate Change 1995 is compelling reading for all students of the environment....It should be a standard reference text for policymakers and stakeholders." American Scientist
"Climate Change 1995 is compelling reading for all students of the environment....It should be a standard reference text for policymakers and stakeholders." American Scientist
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The social costs of climate change will vary dramatically from country to country. This landmark assessment addresses the response options, applicability of cost-benefit analysis to climate change, and the costs faced by the many countries committed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 2000.
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Climate change presents the decision maker with a set of formidable complications: large uncertainties, the potential for irreversible damages or costs, a very long planning horizon, long time lags between emissions and effects, a global scope, wide regional variation, and multiple greenhouse gases of concern. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
benchmark warming, economic double dividend, indirect policy options, greenhouse gas abatement costing studies, flow summation method, tradable quota scheme, climate change decision making, noncooperating countries, eternal permits, tradable quota system, mitigation cost estimates, utility regulatory reforms, climate change decisions, domestic carbon taxes, model comparison project, precautionary investments, nonmarket impacts, negative net cost, flood hazard assessment, emission reduction costs, fossil fuel switching, carbon abated, emission reduction scenarios, tradable quotas, emission reduction options Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Climate change presents the decision maker with a set of formidable complications: large uncertainties, the potential for irreversible damages or costs, a very long planning horizon, long time lags between emissions and effects, a global scope, wide regional variation, and multiple greenhouse gases of concern. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
benchmark warming, economic double dividend, indirect policy options, greenhouse gas abatement costing studies, flow summation method, tradable quota scheme, climate change decision making, noncooperating countries, eternal permits, tradable quota system, mitigation cost estimates, utility regulatory reforms, climate change decisions, domestic carbon taxes, model comparison project, precautionary investments, nonmarket impacts, negative net cost, flood hazard assessment, emission reduction costs, fossil fuel switching, carbon abated, emission reduction scenarios, tradable quotas, emission reduction options Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World Bank, United States, Environmental Protection Agency, United Nations, Cambridge University Press, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Oxford University Press, Montreal Protocol, New Zealand, The Energy Journal, American Economic Review, North America, World Resources Institute, Asian Development Bank, European Union, Latin America, Economic Journal, Annual Review of Energy, Van Kooten, Energy Economics, Harvard University, New Delhi, Johns Hopkins University Press New!
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- Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by John T. Houghton on page 50, and page 362
- United Nations Environment Programme: Environmental Data Report by United Nations Environment Programme on page 50
- Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting: Interim Version (Studies in Methods. Series F ; No. 61) on page 51
- World Development Report 1992: Development and the Environment by The World Bank on page 51
- World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development by World Bank on page 51
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- Public Policies for Environmental Protection by Paul R. Portney on 6 pages
- Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology by Michael A. Toman on 5 pages
- Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change (Resources for the Future) by William D. Nordhaus on page 157, and page 212
- Economics and the Global Environment by Charles S. Pearson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Climate Change 2001: Mitigation: Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by Bert Metz on page 271
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