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.
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Life on Earth is possible partly because some gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor, which naturally occur in Earth's atmosphere, trap heat-like a greenhouse does. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard carbon tax, key energy industries, active subsidies, global net benefits, fossil fuel suppliers, environmental additionality, tax interaction effect, climate change risks, national emission inventories, carbon tax revenues, double dividend hypothesis, damaging subsidies, overall economic costs, carbon sequestration projects, electricity restructuring, buyer liability, fossil fuel producers, carbon permits, revenue recycling, carbon intensity, corporate tax cuts, abatement policies, flexibility mechanisms, international emissions trading, clean development mechanism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kyoto Protocol, United States, New York, European Union, Second Assessment Report, Soviet Union, Contribution of Working Group, Energy Information Administration, Multi-Model Evaluation, Framework Convention, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Government Printing Office, World Bank, Conference of Parties, Latin America, Montreal Protocol, President Clinton, Suzi Kerr, United Nations, White House, International Energy Agency, New Zealand, Oxford University Press, Dallas Burtraw New!
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Life on Earth is possible partly because some gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor, which naturally occur in Earth's atmosphere, trap heat-like a greenhouse does. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard carbon tax, key energy industries, active subsidies, global net benefits, fossil fuel suppliers, environmental additionality, tax interaction effect, climate change risks, national emission inventories, carbon tax revenues, double dividend hypothesis, damaging subsidies, overall economic costs, carbon sequestration projects, electricity restructuring, buyer liability, fossil fuel producers, carbon permits, revenue recycling, carbon intensity, corporate tax cuts, abatement policies, flexibility mechanisms, international emissions trading, clean development mechanism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kyoto Protocol, United States, New York, European Union, Second Assessment Report, Soviet Union, Contribution of Working Group, Energy Information Administration, Multi-Model Evaluation, Framework Convention, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Government Printing Office, World Bank, Conference of Parties, Latin America, Montreal Protocol, President Clinton, Suzi Kerr, United Nations, White House, International Energy Agency, New Zealand, Oxford University Press, Dallas Burtraw New!
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- Unfinished Business by Ivor Richard on 4 pages
- World Energy Outlook by International Energy Agency on page 152, page 170, and page 256
- Public Policies for Environmental Protection by Paul R. Portney on page 35, page 47, and Back Matter
- The Kyoto Protocol: A Guide and Assessment by Michael Grubb on page 7, page 23, and page 225
- Environmental Economics by Charles Kolstad on page 46, and Back Matter
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- Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto by Richard B. Steward on page 141, and page 145
- Environmental Economics in Practice: Case Studies from India by Gopal K. Kadekodi on page 291
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