Author: Kyle Chuan Meng
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Empirical research on anthropogenic climate change is constrained by two fundamental facts: climate change is unprecedented and its impacts occur gradually. This implies that neither evidence from recent history nor the near future can directly inform policy. Under such circumstances, empirical research must find historical analogs capturing particular features of future climate change and policy, which, combined with theory, can provide credible out-of-sample predictions. The four papers in this dissertation use new data settings and methodologies to causally examine central questions related to climate change mitigation, adaptation, innovation, and impacts. Results from these papers can help inform future climate-related research and various issues regarding the political economy of climate policy.
Essays in the Economics and Political Economy of Climate Change
Author: Kyle Chuan Meng
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Languages : en
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Empirical research on anthropogenic climate change is constrained by two fundamental facts: climate change is unprecedented and its impacts occur gradually. This implies that neither evidence from recent history nor the near future can directly inform policy. Under such circumstances, empirical research must find historical analogs capturing particular features of future climate change and policy, which, combined with theory, can provide credible out-of-sample predictions. The four papers in this dissertation use new data settings and methodologies to causally examine central questions related to climate change mitigation, adaptation, innovation, and impacts. Results from these papers can help inform future climate-related research and various issues regarding the political economy of climate policy.
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Languages : en
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Empirical research on anthropogenic climate change is constrained by two fundamental facts: climate change is unprecedented and its impacts occur gradually. This implies that neither evidence from recent history nor the near future can directly inform policy. Under such circumstances, empirical research must find historical analogs capturing particular features of future climate change and policy, which, combined with theory, can provide credible out-of-sample predictions. The four papers in this dissertation use new data settings and methodologies to causally examine central questions related to climate change mitigation, adaptation, innovation, and impacts. Results from these papers can help inform future climate-related research and various issues regarding the political economy of climate policy.
Climate Change and Common Sense
Author: Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199692874
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Each chapter represents a contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199692874
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Each chapter represents a contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.
Climate Change and Common Sense
Author: Robert W. Hahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191624101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem. If we fail to regulate greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, or use alternative strategies for addressing the problem, the damages could be significant, and perhaps catastrophic. After several international meetings in which nation-states have tried unsuccessfully to address the climate change problem, there is a sense of frustration and urgency: frustration at the slow pace at which countries are moving toward an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; urgency because of the growing evidence that climate change is a serious problem that should be addressed globally and quickly. This book takes a close look at the fundamental political and economic processes driving climate change policy. It identifies institutional arrangements and policies that are needed to design more effective climate change policy. It also examines ethical and distributional arguments that are critical in understanding and framing the climate debate. The book is built around a conference honouring Tom Schelling that took place at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of Manchester. Each chapter represents a significant contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191624101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem. If we fail to regulate greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, or use alternative strategies for addressing the problem, the damages could be significant, and perhaps catastrophic. After several international meetings in which nation-states have tried unsuccessfully to address the climate change problem, there is a sense of frustration and urgency: frustration at the slow pace at which countries are moving toward an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; urgency because of the growing evidence that climate change is a serious problem that should be addressed globally and quickly. This book takes a close look at the fundamental political and economic processes driving climate change policy. It identifies institutional arrangements and policies that are needed to design more effective climate change policy. It also examines ethical and distributional arguments that are critical in understanding and framing the climate debate. The book is built around a conference honouring Tom Schelling that took place at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at The University of Manchester. Each chapter represents a significant contribution to the literature on the political economy of climate change.
Three Essays on the Political Economy of Climate Change
Author: Jakub Rybicki
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Low Carbon for the Long Term
Author: Jared J. Finnegan
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Essays on the Political Economy of Climate Change
Author: Byeong-Hak Choe
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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My dissertation focuses on the political economy of the environment, particularly for climate change. Specifically, I analyze the consequence of climate politics on climate change regulations at national and global levels. The first chapter, "Climate Finance under Conflicts and Renegotiations: A Dynamic Contract Approach," proposes a model of financing two types of climate change projects---adaptation and mitigation---in developing countries. The model in the first chapter considers climate funds (e.g. the Green Climate Fund) as the financial mechanism to provide funding to developing countries. The model demonstrates the consequences of conflicts and renegotiations between rich and poor countries on long-term climate funding dynamics. The second chapter, "Social Media Campaigns, Lobbying and Legislation: Evidence from #climatechange/#globalwarming and Energy Lobbies," estimates the competition between social media campaigns and fossil fuel lobbying on climate change legislation in the U.S., showing that social media contributes to political polarization on climate-unfriendly bills on which the fossil fuel industry exerted the lobbying pressure during the 113-115th U.S. Congresses (2013-2018).
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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My dissertation focuses on the political economy of the environment, particularly for climate change. Specifically, I analyze the consequence of climate politics on climate change regulations at national and global levels. The first chapter, "Climate Finance under Conflicts and Renegotiations: A Dynamic Contract Approach," proposes a model of financing two types of climate change projects---adaptation and mitigation---in developing countries. The model in the first chapter considers climate funds (e.g. the Green Climate Fund) as the financial mechanism to provide funding to developing countries. The model demonstrates the consequences of conflicts and renegotiations between rich and poor countries on long-term climate funding dynamics. The second chapter, "Social Media Campaigns, Lobbying and Legislation: Evidence from #climatechange/#globalwarming and Energy Lobbies," estimates the competition between social media campaigns and fossil fuel lobbying on climate change legislation in the U.S., showing that social media contributes to political polarization on climate-unfriendly bills on which the fossil fuel industry exerted the lobbying pressure during the 113-115th U.S. Congresses (2013-2018).
Climate Change. Economic, political and social strategies to combat the root causes
Author: Alexander Ritter
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668567026
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 2,3, University Witten/Herdecke (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: Ecological Economics, language: English, abstract: A man-made exacerbation of climate change has been widely accepted by the scientific community and calls for a paradigm shift in economic thinking. The new imperative demands for the global economy to achieve a factor-10 reduction of carbon dioxide within the next four decades. This undoubtedly calls for radical changes in the political, the economic as well as in the societal dimension. This essay reviews the different strategies that have been brought forwards by academics and activists aimed at combating global warming and assessing the effectiveness and legitimacy of such proposals.
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668567026
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 2,3, University Witten/Herdecke (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: Ecological Economics, language: English, abstract: A man-made exacerbation of climate change has been widely accepted by the scientific community and calls for a paradigm shift in economic thinking. The new imperative demands for the global economy to achieve a factor-10 reduction of carbon dioxide within the next four decades. This undoubtedly calls for radical changes in the political, the economic as well as in the societal dimension. This essay reviews the different strategies that have been brought forwards by academics and activists aimed at combating global warming and assessing the effectiveness and legitimacy of such proposals.
Economics for People and the Planet
Author: James Boyce
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The goal of economic policy should be to grow the good things that improve our well-being and environmental quality and reduce the bad things that harm humans and nature. To reorient the economy for these ends, we will need to achieve a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power. Global climate change – the most pressing environmental challenge of our time – adds urgency to this task and creates historic opportunities for moving towards a greener future.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The goal of economic policy should be to grow the good things that improve our well-being and environmental quality and reduce the bad things that harm humans and nature. To reorient the economy for these ends, we will need to achieve a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power. Global climate change – the most pressing environmental challenge of our time – adds urgency to this task and creates historic opportunities for moving towards a greener future.
Essays on the Economic Implications of Climate Change Uncertainties
Author: Louise Kessler
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Reflections on Progress
Author: Kemal Dervis
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815729626
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Now, more than ever, the world needs growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking. Is the world giving up on the promise of ever-greater prosperity for all, on functioning democratic institutions, and on long-term peace? Is the special set of circumstances that led to the recent rapid growth in emerging markets unlikely to be present in the future? Will the second decade of the twenty first century end with “secular stagnation”? Does the rise of authoritarianism, populism, and fanatic nihilism—all experienced over the last few years—threaten to unravel what has been built painstakingly since the catastrophe of World War II? Kemal Dervis addresses these and similar questions in this thought-provoking series of essays written for Project Syndicate from 2011 to 2015. The essays are organized in three sections: global economic interdependence, inequality and the political economy of reform, and the specific challenge of Europe. The common theme is the need for growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking in an interdependent world. These kinds of policies offer the potential for another wave of unprecedented human progress aided by breathtaking new technologies. However, a huge and destabilizing disruption is possible if policymaking is not globally cooperative and is not focused on inclusion and greater equity. These essays synthesize the experience and analysis of a scholar and policymaker with national, regional, and international experience at the highest levels. Dervis exhibits a passion for combining strongly held values with political feasibility.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815729626
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Now, more than ever, the world needs growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking. Is the world giving up on the promise of ever-greater prosperity for all, on functioning democratic institutions, and on long-term peace? Is the special set of circumstances that led to the recent rapid growth in emerging markets unlikely to be present in the future? Will the second decade of the twenty first century end with “secular stagnation”? Does the rise of authoritarianism, populism, and fanatic nihilism—all experienced over the last few years—threaten to unravel what has been built painstakingly since the catastrophe of World War II? Kemal Dervis addresses these and similar questions in this thought-provoking series of essays written for Project Syndicate from 2011 to 2015. The essays are organized in three sections: global economic interdependence, inequality and the political economy of reform, and the specific challenge of Europe. The common theme is the need for growth-oriented and socially inclusive policymaking in an interdependent world. These kinds of policies offer the potential for another wave of unprecedented human progress aided by breathtaking new technologies. However, a huge and destabilizing disruption is possible if policymaking is not globally cooperative and is not focused on inclusion and greater equity. These essays synthesize the experience and analysis of a scholar and policymaker with national, regional, and international experience at the highest levels. Dervis exhibits a passion for combining strongly held values with political feasibility.