Perthuis, Christian de creator author. Westlake, Michael translator. text enk 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't take into account the policies that have already been implemented. Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their emissions and building an international carbon market. Christian de Perthuis, Translated by Michael Westlake. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Greenhouse gas mitigation QC981.8.G56 P475 2011 363.738/74 9780511753619 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511753619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511753619 UkCbUP 100422 20180107143411.0 CR9780511753619