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The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, OUP (with Cameron Hepburn)

29th October 2009 publication

Front cover image - ice floes

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1: Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn: Introduction
Part One: Revisiting the Economics of Climate Change
2: Dieter Helm: Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved?
3: Cameron Hepburn and Nicholas Stern: The global deal on climate change
4: Scott Barrett: Climate treaties and the imperative of enforcement
5: Ross Garnaut, Stephen Howes, Frank Jotzo and Peter Sheehan: The implications of rapid development for climate-change mitigation
6: Kjell Arne Brekke and Olof Johansson-Stenman: The behavioural economics of climate change
Part Two: The Global Players and Agreements
7: Paul Collier, Gordon Conway and Anthony Venables: Climate change and Africa
8: Jiahua Pan, Jonathan Phillips and Ying Chen: China's balance of emissions embodied in trade: approaches to measurement and allocating international responsibility
9: Vijay Joshi and Urjit R. Patel: India and climate-change mitigation
10: Robert N. Stavins: Addressing climate change with a comprehensive US cap-and-trade system
11: Dieter Helm: EU climate-change policy: a critique
Part Three: Low-carbon Technologies
12: Dieter Helm: Nuclear power, climate change, and energy policy
13: Howard Herzog: Carbon dioxide capture and storage
14: Richard Green: RClimate-change mitigation from renewable energy: its contribution and cost
15: Krister Andersson, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Kenneth R. Richards: The national inventory approach for international forest-carbon sequestration management
16: David G. Victor: On the Regulation of Geoengineering
17: Steven Sorrell: Improving energy efficiency: hidden costs and unintended consequences
Part Four: National and International Instruments
18: Cameron Hepburn: Carbon taxes, emissions trading and hybrid schemes
19: Gernot Wagner, Nathaniel Keohane, Annie Petsonk, and James Wang: Docking into a global carbon market: Clean Investment Budgets to finance low-carbon economic development
20: Cameron Hepburn: International carbon finance and the Clean Development Mechanism
Part Five: Institutional Architecture
21: Joanna Depledge and Farhana Yamin: The global climate-change regime: a defence
22: Arunabha Ghosh and Ngaire Woods: Governing climate change: lessons from other governance regimes
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