Lord Stern - the United Nations
... as rich countries demonstrate low-carbon growth, flows of funds, sharing technologies. Credible plans to reach 2 tonne/cap by 2050 - requires peaking before 2030 • Rich country reductions and trading schemes designed to be open to trade with other countries, including developing countries. Supply si ...
... as rich countries demonstrate low-carbon growth, flows of funds, sharing technologies. Credible plans to reach 2 tonne/cap by 2050 - requires peaking before 2030 • Rich country reductions and trading schemes designed to be open to trade with other countries, including developing countries. Supply si ...
ANNEX Human Rights Annual Report 2007: Climate Change
... and moral imperative, not simply a long-term environmental challenge. It underpins much of what we try to achieve internationally. An unstable climate threatens the achievement or protection of many human rights. The latest science, collated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth ...
... and moral imperative, not simply a long-term environmental challenge. It underpins much of what we try to achieve internationally. An unstable climate threatens the achievement or protection of many human rights. The latest science, collated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth ...
• That Members discuss the possible actions arising from the Inquiry
... Copies of these presentations are available for any Members who missed the meeting in April. Questions & ideas raised at the meeting were noted and are attached here as Appendix A. 8. Finance There are no financial implications associated with the production of the review itself, this is financed fr ...
... Copies of these presentations are available for any Members who missed the meeting in April. Questions & ideas raised at the meeting were noted and are attached here as Appendix A. 8. Finance There are no financial implications associated with the production of the review itself, this is financed fr ...
Midterm exam review
... What remedy does Henry Paulson view as the most effective means to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels (i.e. sources such as coal fired power plants)? Why does he believe this to be the most effective remedy? Paulson also argues that attempting to do more than this now would not be advisable. ...
... What remedy does Henry Paulson view as the most effective means to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels (i.e. sources such as coal fired power plants)? Why does he believe this to be the most effective remedy? Paulson also argues that attempting to do more than this now would not be advisable. ...
Priorities Slovenian EU-Presidenc
... school. State and local governements are participating in national voluntary programs and initiatives, are analyzing the costs and benefits of actions and developing and apply innovative programs and strategies that achieve wide-ranging benefits to businesses, the environment and public health. Busi ...
... school. State and local governements are participating in national voluntary programs and initiatives, are analyzing the costs and benefits of actions and developing and apply innovative programs and strategies that achieve wide-ranging benefits to businesses, the environment and public health. Busi ...
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... Prior to the conference, LSE Economics Professor Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and his colleagues had conducted research into the required scale, nature and potential sources of financial support for climate change action. They showed ...
... Prior to the conference, LSE Economics Professor Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and his colleagues had conducted research into the required scale, nature and potential sources of financial support for climate change action. They showed ...
PPT
... • Cost of prevention Dutch seawalls are twice as high as New Orleans levees Cost is a small fraction (10% ?) of the Katrina damages ...
... • Cost of prevention Dutch seawalls are twice as high as New Orleans levees Cost is a small fraction (10% ?) of the Katrina damages ...
Why society needs to change - Tom Barker - Support CAT
... • Nick Stern (Vice-President World Bank) “Blimey, it’s serious!”: – Climate change will be expensive; – It will ruin the economy – It’s much cheaper to mitigate; ...
... • Nick Stern (Vice-President World Bank) “Blimey, it’s serious!”: – Climate change will be expensive; – It will ruin the economy – It’s much cheaper to mitigate; ...
Uncertainty and Discounting
... stating that “The main rationale for declining long‐term discount rates results from uncertainty about the future. “ Source: HM Treasury (2003), The Green Book – Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government, HM Treasury, London. ...
... stating that “The main rationale for declining long‐term discount rates results from uncertainty about the future. “ Source: HM Treasury (2003), The Green Book – Appraisal and Evaluation in Central Government, HM Treasury, London. ...
A New Global Climate Change Treaty – Can Humanity Deliver
... Distribution of impacts and vulnerability Aggregate impacts Risk of large-scale singularities or discontinuities – abrupt changes ...
... Distribution of impacts and vulnerability Aggregate impacts Risk of large-scale singularities or discontinuities – abrupt changes ...
Cecilie Mauritzen, CICERO Large Developing Economies: 2010-2013
... 1. Climate policy with poverty reduction? Is that feasible and if so, how? 2. Bioenergy and emissions in rural households – black carbon: climate driver, health risk & short-term fix ...
... 1. Climate policy with poverty reduction? Is that feasible and if so, how? 2. Bioenergy and emissions in rural households – black carbon: climate driver, health risk & short-term fix ...
The Economics of Climate Change
... Even though climate change exists, this does not necessarily mean we should take action to reduce it’s impact (reduce GHGs). Only do something if the benefits > costs ...
... Even though climate change exists, this does not necessarily mean we should take action to reduce it’s impact (reduce GHGs). Only do something if the benefits > costs ...
The Economics of Sustainability
... • A situation in which the market system produces an allocation of resources which is not Pareto-efficient • Yawn and What? • But market failures are very important and can have very real effects • Stern: Climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen ...
... • A situation in which the market system produces an allocation of resources which is not Pareto-efficient • Yawn and What? • But market failures are very important and can have very real effects • Stern: Climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen ...
Assessing Scientific Knowledge about Climate Change
... Assessing Scientific Knowledge about Climate Change Speaker: Dr David Wratt Director, NZ Climate Change Centre; Chief Scientist (Climate), NIWA; Adjunct Professor, Climate Change Research Institute, VUW. Work has now begun on the IPCC's Fifth Assessment, due for completion in 2014. This presentation ...
... Assessing Scientific Knowledge about Climate Change Speaker: Dr David Wratt Director, NZ Climate Change Centre; Chief Scientist (Climate), NIWA; Adjunct Professor, Climate Change Research Institute, VUW. Work has now begun on the IPCC's Fifth Assessment, due for completion in 2014. This presentation ...
ASD Chapter 12 updated 2014_small_part1
... Lecture 12 Climate Change, part 1 The Age of Sustainable Development ...
... Lecture 12 Climate Change, part 1 The Age of Sustainable Development ...
Slide 1
... Conducted at Request of the United States House of Representatives as part of its “Greening the Capitol Initiative” (Chicago – November 5, 2007) Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX®), which launched its greenhouse gas trading operations in 2003, today announced the results of its auction of Carbon Financ ...
... Conducted at Request of the United States House of Representatives as part of its “Greening the Capitol Initiative” (Chicago – November 5, 2007) Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX®), which launched its greenhouse gas trading operations in 2003, today announced the results of its auction of Carbon Financ ...
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... warming outweigh the costs of doing nothing. During the last ice age, the average temperature was just 5 degrees Celsius colder than today, and an additional warming by 5 degrees would be staggering. It would affect every aspect of the world, and the human species would have to leave equatorial regi ...
... warming outweigh the costs of doing nothing. During the last ice age, the average temperature was just 5 degrees Celsius colder than today, and an additional warming by 5 degrees would be staggering. It would affect every aspect of the world, and the human species would have to leave equatorial regi ...
Economic models of climate change
... Nicholas Stern “Our actions now and over the coming decades could create ...
... Nicholas Stern “Our actions now and over the coming decades could create ...
Letter from Bob Ward to Peter Lilley, 14 December 2012
... “Stern draws heavily on non-peer reviewed and alarmist literature to paint an exaggerated picture of the key risks of global warming”. That is simply an absurd claim. The references sections at the end of each chapter of the Review show that the overwhelming majority of citations are to peer-review ...
... “Stern draws heavily on non-peer reviewed and alarmist literature to paint an exaggerated picture of the key risks of global warming”. That is simply an absurd claim. The references sections at the end of each chapter of the Review show that the overwhelming majority of citations are to peer-review ...
Letter from Bob Ward to Peter Lilley, 22 February 2013
... You then go on to explain the reasoning behind your Parliamentary Question of 29 November 2012, but merely demonstrate your lack of knowledge of modern public economics. The purpose behind a price on carbon is to create a charge on greenhouse gas pollution. The intention is that an appropriate price ...
... You then go on to explain the reasoning behind your Parliamentary Question of 29 November 2012, but merely demonstrate your lack of knowledge of modern public economics. The purpose behind a price on carbon is to create a charge on greenhouse gas pollution. The intention is that an appropriate price ...
Calculating the Social Cost of Carbon
... According to the IWG (2010), the SCC is: “an estimate of the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase of carbon emissions in a given year” • includes but is not limited to changes in: “net agricultural productivity, human health, property damages from increased flood risk, and the ...
... According to the IWG (2010), the SCC is: “an estimate of the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase of carbon emissions in a given year” • includes but is not limited to changes in: “net agricultural productivity, human health, property damages from increased flood risk, and the ...
Letter from Peter Lilley to Bob Ward, 2 January 2013
... for future rises in consumption which would have the effect of dramatically reducing the present value of future losses to rich generations1. Para 14. You object to my description of the Review’s use of the balanced growth equivalent as a “novel and misleading practice”. It is novel because, even th ...
... for future rises in consumption which would have the effect of dramatically reducing the present value of future losses to rich generations1. Para 14. You object to my description of the Review’s use of the balanced growth equivalent as a “novel and misleading practice”. It is novel because, even th ...
Jonathon Porritt
... Staying below 2°C means stabilising at 450ppm CO2 which means c. 80% cut by 2050 ...
... Staying below 2°C means stabilising at 450ppm CO2 which means c. 80% cut by 2050 ...