Download or read book La nouvelle conomie climatique written by Felipe Calderon and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doit-on choisir entre prospérité et développement d'un côté et lutte contre le dérèglement climatique de l'autre ? Non, répond l'économiste Nicholas Stern, neuf ans après la publication de son premier rapport, qui avait changé la façon de percevoir les relations entre économie et climat. Ce nouveau livre de référence démontre que ce qui est bon pour le climat l'est aussi pour notre économie. Alors que Paris accueille fin 2015 la conférence des Nations unies sur le climat, il présente un plan d'action, véritable feuille de route de la transition des modèles économiques à l'échelle mondiale. Au terme de recherches inédites, une commission composée de nombreux économistes de renom démontre que, du Brésil à la Chine en passant par l'Europe, la transition vers un nouveau monde sorti de sa dépendance au carbone et aux énergies fossiles est non seulement possible mais également désirable.
Download or read book Changement de climat changement d conomie written by Jean-Philippe Touffut and published by Editions Albin Michel. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’impasse du sommet de Copenhague et la mise en cause du travail scientifique qui y avait présidé ont transformé la perception du changement climatique. En effet, la controverse sur le climat ne concerne plus seulement la question du réchauffement planétaire et les moyens de le traiter. Elle porte aussi désormais sur les solutions qu’apporte la discipline économique : dans les modèles qu’elle construit, l’économie impose ses mots, ses interprétations et ses scénarios. Lesquels faut-il choisir ? Comment permet-elle de décider quelle action mener dans une situation d’incertitude ? L’analyse coûts/avantages suffit-elle pour choisir entre le principe de précaution et le catastrophisme ? Autour de ces questions politiques s’organise le débat dans lequel s’affrontent aujourd’hui les grandes puissances internationales. Huit des plus grands économistes de l’environnement expliquent dans cet ouvrage comment l’économie a changé la compréhension du changement climatique et comment l’étude du climat modifie à son tour l’approche économique.
Download or read book Le casino climatique written by Williams Nordhaus and published by De Boeck Supérieur. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le changement climatique est en train de modifier notre monde en profondeur, et ce, de diverses façons qui entraînent des risques dantesques pour les sociétés humaines et les systèmes naturels. Nous sommes entrés dans le « Casino climatique » et avons lancé les dés du réchauffement, avertit William Nordhaus. Mais nous avons encore le temps de tourner les talons et de sortir de ce casino. Dans cet ouvrage essentiel, l’auteur explique comment y parvenir. Convoquant toutes les problématiques importantes qui s’articulent autour du débat sur le climat, Nordhaus décrit les aspects scientifiques, économiques et politiques en jeu... ainsi que les mesures nécessaires pour réduire les dangers du réchauffement climatique. Dans des termes accessibles à tout citoyen engagé et en prenant soin de présenter avec objectivité différents points de vue, il expose le problème de bout en bout : du début, le réchauffement trouvant son origine dans notre utilisation individuelle de l’énergie, à la fin, les sociétés employant les réglementations, taxes ou subventions pour réduire les émissions de gaz responsables du changement climatique. Nordhaus propose une analyse nouvelle des raisons pour lesquelles les premières politiques, telles que le protocole de Kyoto, ont échoué à diminuer les émissions de dioxyde de carbone et autres gaz à effet de serre. Il démontre en quoi des approches neuves peuvent s’avérer fructueuses et quels outils politiques réduiront le plus efficacement les émissions. En résumé, il clarifie un problème central de notre époque et indique les prochaines mesures cruciales à prendre pour ralentir le réchauffement planétaire.
Download or read book Climate Crisis Economics written by Stuart P. M. Mackintosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Crisis Economics draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities – political, economic, business – are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonized economy and sustainable future. The book draws out policies and practices with both national and local examples, which will demonstrate various complementary approaches that are empowering states and people as they seek to pursue the carbon neutral goal. The author delineates a climate crisis economics approach that is fit for purpose and which can help achieve necessary climate change goals in the decades ahead. Ensuring economic and ecological sustainability is neither easy nor cost-free; there is no single solution to the climate crisis. All aspects of our economies, policies, business, and personal practices must come into alignment in order to succeed. Frustratingly, we know what is needed and we have many of the technologies and systems to make the leap to a carbon neutral economy, yet we still fail to act with alacrity. Leaders, communities, and businesses must shift their narratives in how they talk about and think about the climate crisis. In doing so, in making the narrative leap to a new understanding about what is possible and necessary, we can stop endangering our common future and single, fragile, global habitat, and instead set the stage for Green Globalisation 2.0 and a new, sustainable industrial revolution. Climate Crisis Economics will appeal to academics, students, investors, and professionals from varying disciplines including politics, international political economy, and international economics. Written in an accessible voice, it draws on work in fields outside of and in addition to politics and economics to make a case for climate crisis economics as an approach to addressing the climate change challenge ahead. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched www.knowledgeunlatched.org
Download or read book Merchants of Doubt written by Naomi Oreskes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
Download or read book An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy written by Felix R. FitzRoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in climate change has generated a mountain of literature leaving many floundering in the sheer flood of information, commentary, claims and initiatives. This highly accessible book assumes no prior knowledge and cuts through the confusion to explain the key economic and policy issues related to climate change in simple language and with only a few statistics. Coverage slices across the breadth and depth of climate change, providing short summaries of the most relevant research and conclusions from various disciplines. The authors highlight where economists and policy makers generally misunderstand the science of climate change, underestimate the risks of runaway warming and exaggerate the costs of radical measures to stabilize the climate. A key focus is the impact of climate change on world agriculture, the world's most important activity. The authors provide a critical examination of how current policies that promote poor water usage and soil erosion are risking a catastrophic collapse of agriculture in the poorest and most populous countries in a warming world. They look at the solutions such as how no-till, conservation farming, third generation biofuels from waste land, alternative energy, and bio-char production to raise sustainable yields, reduce emissions and sequester carbon in soil. The second, crucial thrust is a critical examination of the growth economy paradigm of rich countries that is driving climate change. The authors look at economic measures to control climate change including switching taxes from labour to carbon and subsidies from fossil and nuclear energy to renewable alternatives as well as demand management and energy saving. Overall the book provides a comprehensive, critical introduction to the issues and highlights the main policies that are needed to initiate the transformation to sustainability and avert the worst risks of climate catastrophe.
Download or read book Resolving the Climate Change Crisis written by Philip Lawn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem – namely, humankind’s predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world’s high-income nations must begin the transition to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy and low-income nations must follow suit at some stage over the next 20-40 years. Unless they do, a well-designed emissions protocol will be as useless as the paper it is written on. Adopting an ecological economic approach, this book sets out why we must abandon the goal of continuous growth; how we can do so in a way that improves human well-being; what constitutes a safe atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases; and what type of emissions protocol and emissions-trading framework is likely to achieve a desirable climate change outcome. Failure of the world’s leaders to achieve these goals will not only put future human well-being at risk, it will threaten freedom in the liberal-democratic tradition and international peace.
Download or read book Global Warming and the American Economy written by Robert Mendelsohn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of climate change on the United States is explored in this collection. The hypothesis of the study is that warming would be beneficial to the economies of the colder regions but harmful to the economies of the warmer more southern regions.
Download or read book Climate Prosperity written by National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Transition Climate Change and COVID 19 written by Fateh Belaïd and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on energy transition and climate change from an economic perspective. Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a powerful effect on multiple facets of the global economy. The unknown scope and duration of the pandemic and its associated economic shocks have made energy security and the process of clean energy transition highly unpredictable. To combat this, this edited volume presents a wide range of theoretical and empirical research at the nexus of the COVID-19 pandemic and energy, resource, and environmental economics. Chapters focus on four major themes: the impact of crises on energy security, the role of resilient energy systems in society, the challenges of clean energy transition, and economic impacts of COVID-19 on climate change. Providing rigorous analysis of an evolving situation that will continue to impact the global energy market, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of energy economics, environmental economics, and resource economics as well as policy professionals involved in climate change and energy transition.
Download or read book Green Capital written by Christian de Perthuis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity). Although we can find substitutes for scarce natural resources, we cannot replace a natural regulatory system, which is incredibly complex. It is therefore critical that we introduce a new price into the economy that measures the costs of damage to these regulatory functions. This change in perspective justifies such innovations as the carbon tax, which addresses not the scarcity of carbon but the inability of the atmosphere to absorb large amounts of carbon without upsetting the climate system. Brokering a sustainable peace between ecology and the economy, Green Capital describes a range of valuation schemes and their contribution to the goals of green capitalism, proposing a new approach to natural resources that benefits both businesses and the environment.
Download or read book Resolving the Climate Change Crisis written by Philip A. Lawn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind's predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world's high-income nations must begin the transition to a qualitatively-improving steady-state economy and low-income nations must follow suit at some stage over the next 20-40 years. Unless they do, a well-designed emissions protocol will be as useless as the paper it is written on. Adopting an ecological economic approach, this book sets out why we must abandon the goal of continuous growth; how we can do so in a way that improves human well-being; what constitutes a safe atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases; and what type of emissions protocol and emissions-trading framework is likely to achieve a desirable climate change outcome. Failure of the world's leaders to achieve these goals will not only put future human well-being at risk, it will threaten freedom in the liberal-democratic tradition and international peace.
Download or read book The Economics of Climate Change written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "International Conference on the Economics of Climate Change" -- back cover.
Download or read book Long term Economics of Climate Change written by Darwin C. Hall and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains scenarios of geophysical and economic impacts from global warming beyond a doubling of greenhouse gases. This work examines geophysical, ecological, and economic impacts, alternative scenarios with and without policy intervention, institutional change, political-economic barriers to effective policy, and prescriptions for change.
Download or read book The Climate Casino written by William Nordhaus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how.div /DIVdivBringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change./DIVdiv /DIVdivNordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming./DIV
Download or read book Climate Economics written by Frank Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert all climate damage has now passed, well-designed mitigation and adaptation policies, if adopted quickly, could still greatly reduce the likelihood of the most tragic and far-reaching impacts of climate change. Climate economics is the bridge between science and policy, translating scientific predictions about physical systems into projections about economic growth and human welfare that decision makers can most readily use but it has too often consisted of an overly technical, academic approach to the problem. Getting climate economics right is not about publishing the cleverest article of the year but rather about helping solve the dilemma of the century. The tasks ahead are daunting, and failure, unfortunately, is quite possible. Better approaches to climate economics will allow economists to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. This book analyzes potential paths for improvement.
Download or read book Economics of Electricity written by Anna Cretì and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the economics of electricity at each step of the supply chain: production, transportation and distribution, and retail.
