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The views expressed in this publication are those of the author. This publication is part of the overall program of the Institute, as endorsed by its Board of Directors, but does not necessarily reflect the views of individual members of the Board or the Advisory Committee. v Contents Preface ix ix Preface In this study, William Cline continues his work on climate change that began with his path-breaking 1992 book, The Economics of Global Warming, and includes his most recent book Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country (2007). This new analysis focuses on the abatement costs likely to be required to keep global warming within the internationally endorsed ceiling of 2°C warming above preindustrial temperatures. Cline employs three leading abatement cost models to examine a "Copenhagen Convergence" policy scenario in which the major nations achieve their 2020 emissions curbs pledged at Copenhagen in December 2009 and thereafter converge to uniform low per capita emissions by 2050. The momentum for action on greenhouse gas abatement has faltered recently, at least in the United States with the failure of Senate action on legislation on emissions restraint after th

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Author

William R. Cline

Publisher

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780881326307

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, Social Science