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Home >  Books >  Economics and Politics of Climate Change
Economics and Politics of Climate Change
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By Robert W. Hahn
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Economics and Politics of Climate Change
71 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: January 1998
Hardcover
ISBN: 0-8447-7115-5

This title is currently out of print, but online booksellers sometimes have used copies available, and the full text is available in PDF format. See links below.

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A fundamental issue is what steps, if any, nations should take to control greenhouse gas emissions. Robert Hahn argues that over the next decade the best strategy for policymakers is to build institutions that can address climate change in the future by developing a capacity at the nation-state level to measure greenhouse gas emissions and to implement and enforce cost-effective ways of limiting emissions. Policymakers must also improve the capacity of an international body to assess greenhouse gas inventories and review national policies.

Hahn recommends that the developed nations craft an agreement for the next decade that provides a slight emission limitation and allows for a series of case studies, in which developing nations would participate, to preserve diversity and build useful institutional knowledge.

Robert W. Hahn is a resident scholar at AEI.



Table of Contents

Foreword
Executive Summary

  1. Introduction
  2. The Economics of Climate Change
  3. Politics
  4. Policy Recommendations
  5. Conclusion and Areas for Research

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