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ISBN 10: 131651627X
ISBN 13: 9781316516270
Author: Peter Dorman
Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them 1st Edition Table of contents:
1 Carbon Accounting for Planet Earth
Carbon and Life over Geological Time
The Earth Surface Carbon Cycle
Feedback
Carbon and Climate
The Carbon Conundrum
2 The Risks of Climate Change, or Why Carbon Budgets Need to Be Binding
A Spectrum of Risks
Beyond Calculation: The Threat of a Climate Catastrophe
The Economic Problem
3 Measurement
The Footprint Fetish
Economic Complexity and the Limits to Measurement
Taking Carbon Measurement on the Road
Auditing the Carbon Audit
Global Carbon Measurement: From Targets to Budgets
Global Carbon Budgeting: Difficult but Possible
The Climate Challenge in Numbers
4 It’s about Fossil Fuels
The Crusade against Economic Growth
A Choice of Crusades
Salvation through Silviculture?
Forests: A Stopover, Not a Final Destination, for Carbon
Conservation and Renewables: The Danger of Positive Thinking
5 Costs and Consequences
The Centrality of Fossil Fuels
A Brief Detour: What about Jobs?
What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Decarbonizing the Economy?
Getting to Zero Will Not Cost Much: Unless It Does
An Introduction to the Art of Modeling Climate Mitigation
A First Pass at the Model Results
The Costs of Climate Mitigation When You Read the Fine Print
The Problem of Capital
It’s Not Hopeless
Why Honesty about Cost Matters
6 The Carbon Policy Toolkit
A Fork in the Road: Taxes and Permits
But Taxes and Permits Are Different, and It Matters
Exemptions, Handouts and Offsets: The Art of Policy Failure
Carbon Pricing: A Reality Check
Real-World Offsets: The Case of the Clean Development Mechanism
The Rest of the Toolkit
7 The Global Dimension
Cold Comfort: Refrigerators, Air Conditioners and Their Consequences for Carbon Emissions
Why Cooperate?
From Top-Down to Bottom-Up Coordination
The Climate Club: Privileges of Membership
Carbon Revenues and Climate Finance
Climate and Development: A Shared Agenda
What about Trade?
8 Political Economy for Alligators
Carbon and Capital
Tallying the Threat to Wealth
Capital and the Politics of Climate Change
Follow the Carbon Money
The Competition for Carbon Revenues
From Political Economy to Political Action
Appendix: Demystifying the Economics of Climate Change
The Quest for the Social Cost of Carbon
The Social Cost of Carbon: A Chimera
Time Out for Fish
The Dilemma of Scale
More Economics, Less Information
What’s the Alternative?
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