Cline, William R.

Carbon Abatement Costs and Climate Change Finance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (154 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ch 1 Overview -- Policy Context -- Method and Plan of the Study -- Principal Findings -- Ch 2 Baseline Emissions under Business as Usual -- Framework -- Decomposing Emissions Trends, 1990-2006 -- Baseline through 2030 -- Extending the Baseline through 2050 -- Ch 3 Abatement Initiatives in the Copenhagen Accord and Cancún Agreements -- Copenhagen Accord Pledges -- Cancún Agreements -- Ch 4 Abatement Cost Functions -- Top-Down and Bottom-Up Models -- RICE Model -- EMF 22 Models -- McKinsey Model -- Ch 5 Abatement Costs through 2050 -- Copenhagen Convergence (CopCon) -- Abatement Costs under the Copenhagen Convergence Scenario -- Other Model-Based Estimates -- Alternative Abatement Paths -- Ch 6 Trade and Timing -- Shadow Price of Carbon Dioxide -- Ch 7 Estimating Investment Requirements and Adaptation Costs -- International Energy Agency -- World Bank -- Investment Levels Implied by Abatement Cost Estimates -- Adaptation -- Ch 8 Synthesis -- The 100 Billion Copenhagen Commitment -- Estimates of This Study -- Appendices -- References -- Index.

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Carbon offsetting.
Carbon dioxide mitigation -- Costs.
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects.
Global warming -- International cooperation.


Electronic books.

HC79.A4 -- C5495 2011eb

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