Climate Change Policy

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928145-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 772 g

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. Carbon taxes and emissions trading are, in particular, being established in a number of developing countries. This volume provides an accessible overview of the economics of climate change, the policy options, and the scope for making significant carbon reductions.

Zielgruppe

Academics, environmental economists and professionals in the energy sector

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helm, Dieter

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.