The economics of climate change : the Stern Review /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Great Britain. Treasury
Other Authors: Stern, N. H. (Nicholas Herbert)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The science of climate change
  • Economics, ethics and climate change
  • Technical annex: Ethical frameworks and intertemporal equity
  • How climate change will affect people around the world
  • Implications of climate change development
  • Costs of climate change in developed countries
  • Economic modelling of climate change impacts
  • Projecting the growth of greenhouse gas emissions
  • The challenge of stabilisation
  • Understanding the costs of mitigation
  • Macroeconomic models of costs
  • Structural change and competitiveness
  • Opportunities and wider benefits from climate policies
  • Defining a goal for climate change policy
  • Harnessing markets to reduce emissions
  • Carbon markets in action
  • Accelerating technological innovation
  • Beyond carbon markets and technology
  • Understanding the economic adaptation
  • Adaptation policies: key principles and applications in the development world
  • The role of adaptation in sustainable development
  • Framework for understanding international collective action for climate change
  • Creating a global price for carbon
  • Supporting the transition to a carbon economy in developing countries
  • Promoting effective international cooperation on technology
  • Reversing emissions from land use change
  • International support for adaptation
  • Building international co-operation on climate change.