Note--On the Timing of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: A Final Rejoinder to the Symposium on "The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and its Critics" |
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Authors: | Dietz Simon; Stern Nicholas |
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Institution: | * Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment |
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Abstract: | In this final rejoinder to the symposium on "The Economics ofClimate Change: The Stern Review and Its Critics," we respondto comments published in the last issue of this journal by RobertMendelsohn, Thomas Sterner and U. Martin Persson, and John P.Weyant (Mendelsohn et al. 2008). In particular, we examine thepoint of debate with arguably the greatest practical importancefor ongoing negotiations over an international agreement tosucceed the Kyoto Protocol: namely the appropriate timing ofglobal reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Too often in the past, this debate has been presented as onebetween the poles of "act now" and "wait-and-see". Weyant (seeWeyant's |
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