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An Institutional Architecture for Climate Change
Climate change presents us with a massive, unprecedented and multi-faceted challenge. It can be seen as a profound market failure resulting from misaligned incentives; as a behaviour problem, requiring marked shifts in the choices of millions of...
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Climate Change and Trade on the Road to Copenhagen
The global effort to address climate change will require a fundamental transformation of our economies and the ways we use energy. The current phase of negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is set to lay the...
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Climate Change Mitigation, What can we do?
This booklet presents some of the major economic issues that will need to be considered in formulating a strategy to address climate change. It is grounded mainly in the wide-reaching OECD report on ?The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation?...
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Closing the Gaps: Disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in developing countries
Sustainable development is possible but at risk. The planet?s crises ? rapid climate change, degraded ecosystems, scarcities of food, water, and energy ? will outlast the serious economic downturn that now absorbs the attention of global leaders and...
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Double Jeopardy: What the Climate Crisis Means for the Poor
The fifth Brookings Blum Roundtable report, "Double Jeopardy: What the Climate Crisis Means for the Poor" focuses on two of the most pressing challenges for global policymakers: reducing global poverty and stabilizing the Earth's climate. Developed...
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Expecting the Unexpected: Macroeconomic Volatility and Climate Policy
In this paper we examine the effects of unanticipated macroeconomic shocks to growth in developing countries or a global financial crisis on the performance of three climate policy regimes: a globally-harmonized carbon tax; a global cap and trade...
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Five Practical Suggestions to Break the Policy Isolation in IMF's Governance
As part of the preparation for the IMF?s policy and governance review, the IMF released a new policy on conditionalities. This new policy document remains seriously deficient as it maintains the fiction that global monetary policy is not connected...
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Global Governance and Policy Coherence: Before and After the G20 Summit
The G20 Communiqu?, the two G20 Declarations, the G20 Action Progress report and reports of the four G20 work groups reflect a new power structure arrangement in global governance, but it is not the obvious alignment one might have expected from the...
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Policy Incoherence in Capitals: Flawed Messages from the International Community
In order to be effective, a post-2012 climate agreement will need to motivate extensive changes in investment flows and government expenditures, it will need to trigger restructuring of important sectors of the economy such as agriculture, forestry,...
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Policy Options to Prevent Climate Change
Testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means on policy options to prevent climate change. Hufbauer addresses the disadvantages of trade measures aimed at the prevention carbon leakage and advices to aim for good...
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