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The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the
World Meteorological Organization in Geneve in 1979, triggered an
international dialogue on global warming. From the 1997 United
Nations-sponsored conference-during which the Kyoto Protocol was
signed-through meetings in Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, and most
recently Doha (2012) and Warsaw (2013), worldwide attention to the
issue of global warming and its impact on the world's economy has
rapidly increased in intensity. The consensus of these debates and
discussions, however, is less than clear. Optimistically, many
geoscience researchers and members of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) have supported CO2 emission reduction
pledges while maintaining that a 2 DegreesC limit in increased
temperature by the year 2100 is achievable through international
coordination. Other observers postulate that established CO2
reduction commitments such as those agreed to at the Copenhagen
United Nations Climate Change Conference (2009) are insufficient
and cannot hold the global warming increase below 2 DegreesC. As
experts theorize on precisely what impact global warming will have,
developing nations have become particularly alarmed. The developed
world will use energy to mitigate global warming effects, but
developing countries are more exposed by geography and poverty to
the most dangerous consequences of a global temperature rise and
lack the economic means to adapt. The complex dynamics that result
from this confluence of science and geopolitics gives rise to even
more complicated issues for economists, financial planners,
business leaders, and policy-makers. The Oxford Handbook of the
Macroeconomics of Global Warming analyzes the economic impact of
issues related to and resulting from global warming, specifically
the implications of possible preventative measures, various policy
changes, and adaptation efforts as well as the different
consequences climate change will have on both developing and
developed nations. This multi-disciplinary approach, which touches
on issues of growth, employment, and development, elucidates for
readers state-of-the-art research on the complex and far-reaching
problem of global warming.
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