Climate Change Library Climate Change Library
A 2020 Low Carbon Economy: A Knowledge Economy Programme Report
This report summarizes three scenarios for low-carbon development in the U.K. and uses them to make policy recommendations for using low carbon activities as a source of economic growth. The report also summarizes pitfalls in low carbon development, such as uncertainty in the business sector about how carbon policies function. Though written for ...
See More...
Charles Levy
The Work Foundation, London: June 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Specialized Analysts
A Blueprint for Legislative Action
"The United States faces an urgent need to transform our nation’s economy, make the country more energy secure, and take meaningful action to slow, stop, and reverse GHG emissions to address climate change.The economic, energy, and global warming realities facing the nation are characterized by a detrimental dependence on foreign oil, economic in ...
See More...
USCAP membership
Washington, DC: United States Climate Action Partnership. January, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A blueprint for the integrated assessment of climate change in cities
Abstract
"More than half of the global population live in cities, which are major concentrations of
vulnerability to climate change. Cities are also major emitters of greenhouse gasses. Consequently they are key to mitigating global climate change and reducing the impacts of climate change on people and infrastructure. This role is being in ...
See More...
Dawson, R. J., Hall, J. W., Barr, S. L., Batty, M., Bristow, A. L., Carney, S., Dagoumas, A., Evans, S., Ford, A., Harwatt, H.,Köhler, J., Tight, M. R., Walsh, C. L. and Zanni, A. M.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK:Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, U. of Newcastle. Tyndall Working Paper 129, February 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A Call for Action: Consensus Principles and Recommendations from the U.S. Climate Action Partnership...
A statement of principles and recommendations - including a cap and trade scheme - by the U.S. Climate Action Partnership. Members have pledged to work with the President, the Congress, and all other stakeholders to enact an environmentally effective, economically sustainable, and fair climate change program consistent with their principles at the ...
See More...
U.S. Climate Action Partnership
U.S. Climate Action Partnership: 2007
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor the Public
A Case-Study on Project-Level CO2 Mitigation Costs in Industrialised Countries - The Climate Cent Fo...
Abstract:
"We analyse CO2 emissions reduction costs based on project data
from the Climate Cent Foundation (CCF), a climate policy instrument in
Switzerland. We draw four conclusions. First, for the projects investigated,
the CCF on average pays € 63/t. Due to the Kyoto Protocol, the CCF buys
reductions until 2012 only. This cutoff inc ...
See More...
Kunz, Laura, and Adrian Muller
Gothenburg, SE: University of Gothenburg, Working Papers in Economics No 342, Jan 2009
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists
A Changing Climate for Business Third Edition
This is the third edition of a business publication from the UK Climate Impacts Programme. This set of publications serves as an introduction to climate change impacts and adaptation for a general business audience. In addition to the inclusion of information from the new UK Climate Projections, updates also include making the business case for ...
See More...
Gerry Metcalf, Kay Jenkinson and Kay Johnstone
UK Climate Impacts Programme, Oxford, UK, June 2010
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Climate for Collaboration: Analysis of US and EU Lessons and Opportunities in Energy and Climate P...
From the Abstract: "This paper aims to improve mutual understanding between the EU and US with regard to climate change and energy policy, suggesting specific opportunities for transatlantic cooperation in this area. A background on the environmental, legislative, and economic contexts of the EU and US as they relate to climate policy sets the con ...
See More...
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy in the U.S.
“Climate change is not
only an issue of the environment; it is also an issue of justice and human
rights, one that dangerously intersects race and class. All over the world
people f color, Indigenous Peoples and low-income communities ear
disproportionate burdens from climate change itself, ...
See More...
Hoerner, J. Andrew, and Nia Robinson
Oakland, CA: Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative: July 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor the Public
A Comparative Analysis of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Global Transformations in Toward a ...
From the Abstract: "This working paper contains a comparative analysis of two regional emissions trading schemes in the United States: the trading schemes of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the Western Climate Initiative (WCI). While the RGGI scheme started in January 2009, the WCI scheme is scheduled to start in January 2012. T ...
See More...
Benjamin Stephan
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs,Analyzing Opinions & Attitudes
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Copenhagen Collar: Achieving Comparable Effort Through Carbon Price Agreements
From the Executive Summary: The financial crisis and deep recession illustrate the unforeseen macroeconomic conditions through which climate policy must endure if it is to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases over the long run. It has made voters uneasy about climate policy that could raise energy costs and unemployment, even though the ...
See More...
Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter Wilcoxen
The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 2009
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Asia and OceaniaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Copenhagen Prognosis: Towards a Safe Climate Future
This report examines the current state of climate change, offers guidance for the future and a path forward, and finally takes into account the need for climate protection for human development in the third world.
Excerpted from the Key Messages section: "Achieving the necessary 'Great Transformation' to give humanity a reasonable chance t ...
See More...
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Discordant Accord
This article is both a comprehensive overview of what took place at the Copenhagen climate talks and either a very pessimistic or a very realistic analysis of the result: The Accord. The authors raise some serious doubts "that any world forum, UN or otherwise, can produce a solid
commitment to limit emissions, one of the most intractable prob ...
See More...
Ed Crooks, Fiona Harvey and Andrew Ward
The Financial Times, December 2009
Objectives: Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A Dynamic Analysis Of Human Welfare In A Warming Planet
This paper asks, "Is a path of low emissions compatible with sustainable levels of human welfare? With steady growth in human quality of life?" Addressing these questions requires both defining welfare criteria and empirically estimating the possible paths of the economy.
The authors develop a dynamic model with four intertemporal links: educati ...
See More...
Llavador, Humberto, John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre
New Haven, CT: Yale University. Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1673: August 13, 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating ProposalsFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Framework for Achieving Energy Security and Arresting Global Warming
This report links the pursuit of climate change mitigation to US national security goals, moving beyond the common focus on economic, and environmental problems. The issues raised go beyond the cost of oil (estimated to be $330 billion a year at $75/barrel).
It notes that the US Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will only marginally re ...
See More...
Berlin, Ken
Issues: December 4, 2008
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Evaluating Programs,Evaluating Proposals
Geographic Focus: US OnlyFor Specialized Analysts|For the Public
A Framework for Social Adaptation to Climate Change
This publication is a great resource for coral reef and other tropical marine
ecosystem managers, policy makers, conservation practitioners,
academics,
business and other resource user communities, government employees, reef
users
and scientists in tropical coastal regions.
It presents an a framework for understanding the vulnerab ...
See More...
N.A. Marshall, P.A. Marshall, J. Tamelander, D. Obura, D. Malleret-King and J.E. Cinner
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland, June 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Framework for Social Adaptation to Climate Change: Sustaining Tropical Coastal Communitites and In...
Although this report primarily documents the effects of climate change to coastal areas in third world countries, it's findings and recommendations may be useful to managers of coastal areas in developed countries as well.
From the Introduction:
"In this publication we describe how managers, communities and (Adger 2006; Dessai and Hu ...
See More...
N.A. Marshall, P.A. Marshall, J. Tamelander, D. Obura, D. Malleret-King and J.E. Cinner
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Gland, Switzerland, June 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Fresh Look at Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)
"The belief that societies that conserve their forests are themselves the beneficiaries of their efforts is very deep rooted across the developed world. In support India is often cited as a country that achieved near zero deforestation in 1980s even when at the bottom of the countries on the development path. But perhaps India has paid a price for ...
See More...
Promode Kant
Institute of Green Economy, New Delhi, India, May 2010
Objectives: Forecasting Impacts,Policies & Legislation,Evaluating Programs
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member States,Rich and Poor Nations,Asia and Oceania,Africa,Latin AmericaFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
A Fresh Look at the Costs of Reducing US Carbon Emissions
This paper discusses use of Marginal Abatement Cost curves to analyze options for emission reductions.From the Introduction:"New analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance on the cost of reducing CO2 emissions in the US shows that some previous estimates of abatement costs have probably been too optimistic. To achieve a 17% reduction on 2005 levels ...
See More...
Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, New York, NY: 14 January 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Policies & Legislation
Geographic Focus: US and Other CountriesFor Specialized Analysts
A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from th...
This paper discusses valuing climate change's impact on forest ecosystems and human welfare. Though focusing on European experiences, the paper's analysis can also be related to U.S. forests.
The Summary:
"In this paper we present a systematic attempt to assess economic value of climate change impact on forest ecosystems and ...
See More...
Helen Ding, Silvia Silvestri, Aline Chiabai, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Center for Environmental Economics and Management, Sustainable Development Series, Venice: 2010
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists
A long-run target for climate policy: the Stern Review and its critics
"This report is intended to support the work of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) Secretariat in its review of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2050 (defined here as the ‘long run’). It first sets out the approach taken in the Stern Review to proposing a range of targets for stabilising the atmospheric concentration of g ...
See More...
Dietz, Simon
Objectives: Theoretical Modeling,Forecasting Impacts
Geographic Focus: US and Other Countries,EU and Member StatesFor Economists|For Specialized Analysts
Search Directory
| Home |
| Using This Site |
| About This Site |
| Basic Economics Guidance |
| Legislators' Tools |
| Webinars |
| Lessons From Experience |
| Climate Change Library |
| Web Resources |
| Who We Are / Contact |
Who's Online
We have 4 guests online
