The economics of climate change mitigation : policies and options for global action beyond 2012 (Print with PDF)

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.