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Ambitious measures to reduce carbon emissions are all too rare in reality, impeded by economic and political concerns rather than technological advances. In this timely collection of essays, Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton show that the impact of inaction on climate change will be far worse than the cost of ambitious climate policies.
Contents
Introduction; Publication History; PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE AND EQUITY; Chapter 1. Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces; Chapter 2. Carbon Markets Are Not Enough; Chapter 3. Modelling Pessimism: Does Climate Stabilization Require a Failure of Development?; Chapter 4. The Tragedy of Maldistribution: Climate, Sustainability, and Equity; PART II: ANALYSES OF CLIMATE DAMAGES; Chapter 5. Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency?; Chapter 6. Did the Stern Review Underestimate U.S. and Global Climate Change?; Chapter 7. Can Climate Change Save Lives? A Comment on "Economy-Wide Estimates of the Implications of Climate Change: Human Health"; PART III: THEORY AND METHODS OF INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; Chapter 8. Inside the Integrated Assessment Models: Four Issues in Climate Economics; Chapter 9. Limitations of Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change; Chapter 10. Negishi Welfare Weights in Integrated Assessment Models: The Mathematics of Global Inequality; PART IV: APPLICATIONS OF INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; Chapter 11. Climate Risks and Carbon Prices: Revising the Social Cost of Carbon; Chapter 12. Epstein-Zin utility in DICE: Is Risk Aversion Irrelevant to Climate Policy?; Chapter 13. Fat Tails, Exponents, Extreme Uncertainty: Simulating Catastrophe in DICE; Chapter 14. Climate Damages in the FUND Model: A Disaggregated Analysis; Chapter 15. Climate Policy and Development: An Economic Analysis; Appendix: Supplementary Data for Chapter 3; Notes; References
