The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation
Policies and Options for Global Action beyond 2012

Against the background of a projected doubling of world greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, this book explores feasible ways to abate them at least cost. Through quantitative analysis, it addresses key climate policy issues including: an ideal set of climate policy tools; the size of the economic and environmental costs of incomplete country or sector coverage of climate change mitigation policies; how to concretely develop a global carbon market; the case for, and what can we reasonably expect from, R&D and technology support policies; and the incentives for major emitting countries to join a climate change mitigation agreement.
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Graph 6.13 - Contribution of each world region to cumulative world emissions between 1900 and 2004
Contribution of each world region to cumulative world emissions between 1900 and 2004 appears in The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action beyond 2012.
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