Carbon Abatement Costs and Climate Change Finance: 96 (Policy Analyses in International Economics) - Softcover

Cline, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881326070 ISBN 13: 9780881326079

Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics, 2011

Synopsis

Envoys at the recent United Nations meeting in Cancun, Mexico, agreed to a climate-protection package, which included a fund that would manage a "significant share" of the $100 billion pledged in 2009 by developed countries for poorer nations. The money pledged begs the very real question of what are the real economic costs of a coordinated international effort to curb global warming? Cline, whose previous work in this area has garnered a number of awards, develops a framework that helps determine these costs. He defines an emissions baseline for each of the 25 largest emitting nations (the European Union is treated as a single entity in this study) and looks at trends in population growth, per capita GDP growth, growth in the energy efficiency of output, and how much carbon dioxide emission can be reduced going forward. Carbon Abatement Costs and Climate Change Finance also investigates the policy paths needed to not only abate carbon dioxide emissions growth but also decrease it.

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About the Author

William R. Cline has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 1981. During 1996-2001 while on leave from the Institute, Dr. Cline was deputy managing director and chief economist of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington, DC. From 2002 through 2011 he held a joint appointment with the Peterson Institute and the Center for Global Development, where he is currently senior fellow emeritus. Before joining the Peterson Institute, he was senior fellow, the Brookings Institution (1973-81); deputy director of development and trade research, office of the assistant secretary for international affairs, US Treasury Department (1971-73); Ford Foundation visiting professor in Brazil (1970-71); and lecturer and assistant professor of economics at Princeton University (1967-70).

About this edition

• Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0881326070
• ISBN 13: 9780881326079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256