Smart solutions to climate change
Subtitle: comparing costs and benefits
By: edited by Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780521763424; 9780521138567
Subjects: Climate change mitigation; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Global warming
Description: "The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policy makers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geoengineering; mitigation of CO₂, CH₄, and "black carbon"; expanding forest Carbon Sequestration; R&D of low-carbon energy; and encouraging green technology transfer. For each policy, the authors outline all of the costs, benefits and likely outcomes, in fully referenced, clearly presented chapters accompanied by shorter, critical alternative perspective papers."-P. [i].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bjørn Lomborg; title: pt. I. The solutions. 1. Climate engineering / J. Eric Bickel and Lee Lane. Alternative perspectives / Roger A. Pielke, Jr. ; Anne E. Smith; title: 2. Carbon dioxide mitigation / Richard S.J. Tol. Alternative perspectives / Onno Kuik ; Roberto Roson; title: 3. Forestry carbon sequestration / Brent Sohngen. Alternative perspective / Sabine Fuss; title: 4. Black carbon mitigation / Robert E. Baron, W. David Montgomery, and Sugandha D. Tuladhar. Alternative perspective / Milind Kandlikar, Conor C.O. Reynolds, and Andrew P. Grieshop; title: 5. Methane mitigation / Claudia Kemfert and Wolf-Peter Schill. Alternative perspectives / David Anthoff ; Daniel J.A. Johansson and Fredrik Hedenus; title: 6. Market- and policy-driven adaptation / Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, and Enrica de Cian. Alternative perspectives / Samuel Fankhauser ; Frank Jotzo; title: 7. Technology-led climate policy / Isabel Galiana and Christopher Green. Alternative perspectives / Valentina Bosetti ; Gregory Nemet; title: 8. Technology transfer / Zili Yang. Alternative perspective / David Popp; title: pt. II. Ranking the opportunities. Expert panel ranking / Nancy L. Stokey ... [et al.]; title: Conclusion / Bjørn Lomborg.