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Author: Jason F. Shogren
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780844771342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the driving elements behind the benefits and costs of climate protection via Kyoto or similar international agreements that follow.
Author: Jason F. Shogren
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1998 Kyoto protocol signalled a new earnestness of international intent toward addressing the perceived risk of climate change. Kyoto demands that developed nations turn their economies so as to hit differentiated, sub-1990 level carbon emission targets within the next decade or so. But when thinking of the Kyoto protocol imagine trying to turn a battleship on a dime with a third of the crew on-board. Improbable, but doable...but for what benefit...and at what cost? The magnitude depends on what you choose to believe about the answer to these questions: Are we on the cusp of a catastrophe? Will developing countries ever participate? What will we do with any revenues that are raised in a trading system? Should nations be forced to reduce some fixed percentage of emissions at home? Can carbon sinks reduce costs? Will people adopt new energy-efficient technologies without a price hike in energy? The answers to these questions from economic analysis say that the catastrophes have to be exceedingly likely for Kyoto to make sense.
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Imad A. Moosa
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2014-11-28
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1782549242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKøThe authors present an extensive survey of the empirical evidence on the determinants of environmental performance as well as the effects of environmental regulation on the costs of production, plant location, firm-level productivity, stock prices and
Author: Bjorn Lomborg
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-09-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0307267792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.
Author: D. P. van Vuuren
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 117
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Barrett
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in December 1997, is the first international treaty to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. But Kyoto does not mark the conclusion to international cooperation on climate change. It is really just a beginning. This paper shows that, in the aggregate, the benefits of undertaking the Kyoto reductions should exceed the corresponding costs?provided these are achieved cost-effectively. But, although Kyoto seeks to promote cost-effectiveness, it may yet prove very costly. Moreover, the agreement may not even achieve the reductions that it promises, either because emissions will relocate to the countries that are not required to stay within Kyoto-prescribed ceilings or because ??paper? trades will be promoted by the protocol's mechanisms. More fundamentally, Kyoto does not deter non-compliance, and it only weakly deters non-participation. These flaws need to be mended, but the nature of the problem makes that an especially difficult task.
Author: Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-30
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 113964369X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research institutes, Bjørn Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental problems that feature prominently in headline news across the world. His arguments are presented in non-technical, accessible language and are carefully backed up by over 2500 footnotes allowing readers to check sources for themselves. Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism, Bjørn Lomborg stresses the need for clear-headed prioritisation of resources to tackle real, not imagined problems. The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favoured by campaign groups and the media.
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9789291675241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report explores the potential ancillary benefits for air pollution - in terms of reductions in pollutant emissions and changes in control costs and environmental impacts - resulting from different ways of implementing the Kyoto climate change protocol in Europe. It is based on a comparison of three climate policy scenarios, which differ in their use of the Kyoto mechanisms, with a baseline scenario for 2010.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 404
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