An Overview of Climate Change: What does it mean for our way of life? What is the best future we can hope for?
By Neva Goodwin. March 2008
Category: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Law and Economics for a Warming World
By Lisa Heinzerling and Frank Ackerman Harvard Law and Policy Review volume 1, no. 2, pp.331-362. Both law and economics offer frameworks for understanding public policy – and both require changes in order to respond effectively to the challenge of climate change. Contrary to implicit conservative assumptions, maintaining the status quo is not an option; “business […]
Florida and Climate Change: The Costs of Inaction
By Elizabeth A.Stanton and Frank Ackerman report commissioned by Environmental Defense, November 2007. The report is the first detailed analysis on the potential consequences of continued climate change for the state’s economy. The report concludes that, if left unchecked, climate change will significantly harm Florida’s economy in the next several decades, and that impacts on just three […]
The Economics of Atrazine
By Frank Ackerman International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, volume 13 no. 4, (Oct-Dec 2007), pp.441-449.
Economists, Value Judgments, and Climate Change: A View From Feminist Economics
By Julie A. Nelson. October 2007
The Carbon Content of Japan-US Trade
By Frank Ackerman, Masanobu Ishikawa, and Mikio Suga Energy Policy, volume 35 no. 9, September 2007, pp.4455-4462. Visit Energy Policy online How much carbon is “embodied” in world trade? If one country imports carbon-intensive products from another, should the production emissions be attributed to the consuming nation rather than the producer? A growing empirical research literature addresses […]
Debating Climate Economics: The Stern Review vs. Its Critics
by Frank Ackerman report to Friends of the Earth-UK, July 2007.
Climate Change – The Costs of Inaction
By Frank Ackerman and Liz Stanton report released with Friends of the Earth UK, October 2006.
The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis
By Frank Ackerman and Ian J. Finlayson. October 2006 Why do economic models of climate change so often find that the “optimal” policy is to do very little about this serious global threat? Frank Ackerman and Ian Finlayson examine the widely used DICE model, focusing on its choice of a discount rate, its somewhat dated […]
The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis
Climate Policy, volume 6 no. 5 (2006), pp.509-526. by Frank Ackerman and Ian Finlayson (Despite the nominal publication date, this first appeared in print in mid-2007.) Visit Climate Policy Why do economic models of climate change so often find that the “optimal” policy is to do very little about this serious global threat? Frank Ackerman […]