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Title The economics of climate change : the Stern review / [study conducted by] Nicholas Stern.
Publisher Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Description xix, 692 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm. ; pbk.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents [PART 1 Climate change - Our approach] The science of climate change: scale of the environment challenge -- Economics, ethics and climate change -- Ethical frameworks and intertemporal equity.
[PART 2 Impacts of climate change on growth and development] How climate change will affect people around the world -- Implications of climate change for development -- Costs of climate change in developed countries -- Economic modelling of climate-change impacts.
[PART 3 The economics of stabilisation] Projecting the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions -- Climate change and the Kuznets curve -- The challenge of stabilisation -- Identifying the costs of mitigation -- Macroeconomic models of costs -- Structural change and competitiveness -- Key statistics for 123 UK production sectors -- Opportunities and wider benefits from climate policies -- Towards a goal for climate-change policy.
[PART 4 Policy responses for mitigation] Harnessing markets for mitigation : the role of taxation and trading -- Carbon pricing and emission markets in practice -- Accelerating technological innovation -- Beyond carbon markets and technology.
[PART 5 Policy responses for adaptation] Understanding the economics of adaptation -- Adaptation in the developed world -- Adaptation in the developing world.
[PART 6 International collective action] Framework for understanding international collective action for climate change -- Creating a global price for carbon -- Supporting the transition to a low-carbon global economy -- Promoting effective international technology co-operation -- Reversing emissions from land use change -- International support for adaptation -- Conclusions : building and sustaining international co-operation on climate change.
Local Note / Price 44.40
Subject(s) Environmental policy -- Great Britain.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
Greenhouse gas mitigation -- Government policy
Note Logo on t.p.: Stern review on the economics of climate change
Alt Title Stern review
Alt Author Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)
Great Britain. Treasury.
ISBN 9780521700801 (pbk.)
0521700809 (pbk.)
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