Keywords:
Carbon taxes.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 theKyoto 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. This volume provides an accessibleoverview of the economics of climate change, the policy options, and the scope for making significant carbon reductions.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (424 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780191535871
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=422605
DDC:
363.7387
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Climate-change Policy: A Survey -- Part One: Principles -- 2 Science Informing Policy on Climate Change -- 3 Uncertainty and Climate-change Policy -- 4 Integrated Assessment Models -- Part Two: The Social Cost of Carbon -- 5 The Social Cost of Carbon -- 6 The Social Costs of Greenhouse Gases: Their Values and Policy Implications -- 7 The Marginal Damage Costs of Carbon-dioxide Emissions -- Part Three: Tradable Permits and Carbon Taxes -- 8 The Tradable-permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: Lessons for Climate Change -- 9 Carbon Trading in the Policy Mix -- 10 Fiscal Interactions and the Case for Carbon Taxes over Grandfathered Carbon Permits -- 11 Tradable Permits for Climate Change: Implications for Compliance, Monitoring, and Enforcement -- Part Four: Kyoto and After -- 12 The Kyoto Protocol: Success or Failure? -- 13 Kyoto Plus -- Part Five: Institutional Design and Energy Policy -- 14 Credible Carbon Taxes -- 15 Climate Change and Energy Policy -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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