Coping with the Climate Crisis (eBook)

Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination

Rabah Arezki, Patrick Bolton, Karim El Aynaoui, Maurice Obstfeld (Herausgeber)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54735-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Coping with the Climate Crisis brings together leading experts from academia and policy circles to explore issues related to the implementation of the COP21 Paris Agreement and the challenges of accelerating the transition toward sustainable development. The book synthesizes the key insights of climate change economics in an accessible guide.

ArezkiRabah: Rabah Arezki is the Chief Economist of the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa Region and a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has published widely in academic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, and the Journal of International Economics.BoltonPatrick: Patrick Bolton is the David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He is the co-author of Contract Theory (MIT Press, 2005) and the co-editor of Credit Markets for the Poor (Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).El AynaouiKarim: Karim El Aynaoui is Managing Director of OCP Policy Center, a think tank based in Rabat, Morocco. He has published papers, books and articles in scientific journals on macroeconomic issues in developing countries.ObstfeldMaurice: Maurice Obstfeld is Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley and Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. His work has appeared in International Economic Journal, Journal of International Money and Finance, and elsewhere.Rabah Arezki is the chief economist of the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa Region and a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was the chief of the commodities unit in the IMF's research department. He has written on energy, commodities, development, and international economics.Patrick Bolton is the Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia University. His books include Contract Theory (2005) and Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing (Columbia, 2011).Karim El Aynaoui is dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. He is also managing director of OCP Policy Center.Maurice Obstfeld is economic counselor and director of research at the International Monetary Fund and Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and is coauthor of International Economics (11th edition, 2018) and Foundations of International Macroeconomics (1996).

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Reducing carbon emissions is the most complex political and economic problem humanity has ever confronted. Coping with the Climate Crisis brings together leading experts from academia and policy circles to explore issues related to the implementation of the COP21 Paris Agreement and the challenges of accelerating the transition toward sustainable development.The book synthesizes the key insights that emerge from the latest research in climate-change economics in an accessible and useful guide for policy makers and researchers. Contributors consider a wide range of issues, including the economic implications and realities of shifting away from fossil fuels, the role of financial markets in incentivizing development and construction of sustainable infrastructure, the challenges of evaluating the well-being of future generations, the risk associated with uncertainty surrounding the pace of climate change, and how to make climate agreements enforceable. They demonstrate the need for a carbon tax, considering the issues of efficiently pricing carbon as well as the role of supply-side policies on fossil fuels. Through a range of perspectives from academic economists and practitioners in the public and private sectors who work either at the country level or under the auspices of multilateral organizations, Coping with the Climate Crisis outlines what it will take to achieve a viable, global climate-stabilization path.

Inhalt

Foreword, by Nizar Baraka, President of the Scientific Committee of COP22AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Rabah Arezki, Patrick Bolton, Karim El Aynaoui, and Maurice ObstfeldPart I: The Energy Transition and Its Consequences1. Reducing Energy Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Meet Our Climate Goals: An Overview, by Philippe Benoit2. Transitional Risks and the Safe Carbon Budget, by Rick van der PloegPart II: Carbon Pricing and Dealing with Uncertainty3. Fighting Climate Change and the Social Cost of Carbon, by Christian Gollier4. How Should Countries Price Fossil Fuels?, by Ian Parry5. Should Carbon Pricing Be Different Across Countries?, by Katheline Schubert6. Needed: Robustness in Climate Economics, by Ted Loch-TemzelidesPart III: Implementing Climate Agreements7. Improving Paris: Credibility, Technology, and Conservation, by Bård Harstad8. Can a Uniform Carbon-Price Commitment Help to Resolve the Global Warming Problem?, by Martin L. Weitzman9. Addressing Climate Change: Does the IMF Have a Role?, by Maurice Obstfeld10. Post-Paris Clean Energy Options for China, by Ujjayant Chakravorty, Carolyn Fischer, and Marie-Helene HubertPart IV: Finance and Sustainable Infrastructure11. Financing Sustainable Infrastructure, by Thierry Déau and Julien Touati12. Climate Change: A Policy-Making Case Study of Capital Markets’Mobilization for Public Good, by Jean Boissinot and Frédéric SamamaContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 30 figures
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54735-8 / 0231547358
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54735-2 / 9780231547352