Overview

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 the Kyoto 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 accessible overview of the economics of climate change, the policy options, and the scope for making significant carbon reductions.

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Author:   Dieter Helm (Official Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.647kg
ISBN:  

9780199281466

ISBN 10:   0199281467
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   05 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Dieter Helm: Introduction 2: Dieter Helm: Climate change policy: a survey 3: Alistair Ulph: Uncertainty and climate change policy The Social Cost of Carbon 4: David Pearce: The social cost of carbon 5: Robert Mendelsohn: Climate change policy 6: Richard Tol: Climate change costs Tradable Permits and Carbon Taxes 7: Tom Tietenberg: The tradable permits approach to protecting the commons 8: Stephen Sorrell and Jos Sijm: Carbon trading in the policy mix 9: Ian Perry: Fiscal interactions and the case for carbon taxes over grandfathered carbon permits Interventions and Command and Control 10: Michael Grubb: Renewables, technical progress and innovation 11: Stephen DeCanio: Energy efficiency: the evidence Kyoto and After 12: Christoph Böhringer: Will Kyoto work? 13: David Victor: Alternatives to Kyoto 14: Scott Barrett: After Kyoto: what to do next Institutional Design 15: Dieter Helm, Cameron Hepburn, and Richard Mash: Credible carbon taxes 16: Philippe Sands: The IPCC: its role and influence 17: Dieter Helm: Whither climate-change policy? 18: Chris Hope: Integrated assessment models

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Dieter Helm is an economist specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment, and concentrates on the energy, water and transport sectors in the UK and Europe. He is currently Fellow in Economics, New College, Oxford and holds a number of advisory board appointments, including the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, the DEFRA Economic Academic Panel (Chair), the DTI Sustainable Energy Panel Advisory Board and the Ministeral Task Force on Sustainable Development.

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