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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2015
      16 July 2015
      ISBN:
      9781139162210
      9781107024069
      9781107614970
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139162210
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 360 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 360 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Economics and Law
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    Economics, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Economics and Law
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    Climate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advise us that we need to make major changes to our lifestyles, and our governments need to agree globally binding treaties and implement market instruments like carbon taxes. This advice is a mistake: it treats technological innovation as being at the periphery of the climate policy challenge, whereas it needs to be at its core; we will phase out emissions when and only when the technologies to replace fossil fuels are good enough, and policies need - quickly - to support these new technologies directly. Anyone with an interest in climate change and energy policy will find this book forward-thinking and invaluable. Professional policy-makers, climate and energy policy researchers, and students of energy and public policy, economics, political science, environmental studies, and geography will find this book especially stimulating.

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    ‘Anthony Patt challenges the received wisdom of climate policy head on … his book serves as wake up call for climate policy decision-makers: in the end, the actual performance of greenhouse gas mitigation policy instruments counts, not their theoretical beauty.’

    Axel Michaelowa - University of Zurich

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