Table of Contents

1: Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn: IntroductionPart One: Revisiting the Economics of Climate Change2: Dieter Helm: Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved?3: Cameron Hepburn and Nicholas Stern: The global deal on climate change4: Scott Barrett: Climate treaties and the imperative of enforcement5: Ross Garnaut, Stephen Howes, Frank Jotzo and Peter Sheehan: The implications of rapid development for emissions and climate-change mitigation6: Kjell Arne Brekke and Olof Johansson-Stenman: The behavioural economics of climate changePart Two: The Global Players and Agreements7: Paul Collier, Gordon Conway and Anthony Venables: Climate change and Africa8: Jiahua Pan, Jonathan Phillips and Ying Chen: China's balance of emissions embodied in trade: approaches to measurement and allocating international responsibility9: Vijay Joshi and Urjit R. Patel: India and climate-change mitigation10: Robert N. Stavins: Addressing climate change with a comprehensive US cap-and-trade system11: Dieter Helm: EU climate-change policy: a critiquePart Three: Low-carbon Technologies12: Dieter Helm: Nuclear power, climate change, and energy policy13: Howard Herzog: Carbon dioxide capture and storage14: Richard Green: Climate-change mitigation from renewable energy: its contribution and cost15: Krister P. Andersson, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Kenneth R. Richards: The national inventory approach for international forest-carbon sequestration management16: David G. Victor: On the regulation of geo-engineering17: Steven Sorrell: Improving energy efficiency: hidden costs and unintended consequencesPart Four: National and International Instruments18: Cameron Hepburn: Carbon taxes, emissions trading and hybrid schemes19: Gernot Wagner, Nathaniel Keohane, Annie Petsonk, and James S. Wang: Docking into a global carbon market: Clean Investment Budgets to finance low-carbon economic development20: Cameron Hepburn: International carbon finance and the Clean Development MechanismPart Five: Institutional Architecture21: Joanna Depledge and Farhana Yamin: The global climate-change regime: a defence22: Arunabha Ghosh and Ngaire Woods: Governing climate change: lessons from other governance regimesBibliography

About the Author

Dieter Helm holds a number of advisory board appointments, including Chairman of the Academic Panel of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and member of the Advisory Panel on Energy and Climate Security, Department for Energy and Climate Change. He was a member of the DTI Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board 2002-7 and of the Prime Minister's Council of Science and Technology 2004-7. He is an associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic
Policy. Dieter Helm's career to date has spanned academia, public policy, and business. He founded Oxera in 1982 and has published extensively on environmental, energy, infrastructure, and regulation
topics.
Cameron Hepburn has advised several governments and international institutions on climate and environmental policy, and he currently serves on UK Defra's Academic Panel. He is an Associate Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, a Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, and he has over a decade's experience working on environmental issues and climate change, with a particular focus on emissions trading and carbon markets. He holds a DPhil (PhD) in economics from Oxford, and
undergraduate degrees in law and engineering from the University of Melbourne.

Reviews

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