Climate change, system change, and the path forward / Melissa K. Scanlan -- The joyful economy : rising up from the devastation of people and nature / James Gustave Speth -- Environmentalism for the next economy / Jedediah Purdy -- Reframing rights and responsibilities to prioritize nature /...

The Paris Agreement on climate change constitutes an important milestone in international climate negotiations. Its key objective is the strengthening of the global response to climate change by transitioning the world to an increasingly green economy. In this book, environmental tax and climate...

"The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD+), will have a major impact on indigenous peoples and forest communities. The REDD+ regime contains many assumptions about the identity,...

Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability explores the critical issue of how taxes can be applied across relevant environmental areas – including transport, nuclear power, and water and waste management – to achieve sustainability. Containing topical chapters written by environmental...

Introduction : stranded assets and the environment / Ben Caldecott -- Stranded assets : then and now / Dimitri Zenghelis, Roger Fouquet and Ralph Hippe -- The "decarbonisation identity" : stranded assets in the power generation sector / Alexander Pfeiffer -- Stranded assets : an...

'Until not much more than 20 years ago, economists frequently lamented the fact that they were limited in their empirical analyses to statistical assessments of market behavior, because controlled economic experiments were (thought to be) infeasible, unethical, or both. Much has changed in the...

In 2012, Australia took the major step of introducing a carbon price, involving the creation of a system of emissions permits initially issued at a fixed price. Carbon Pricing brings together experts instrumental in the development, and operation, of Australia's carbon policy who have played a...

Ergänzend zu dem im ifo Schnelldienst 19/2001 diskutierten Thema "Klimaschutz - ist das Emissionshandelssystem ein effizientes Mittel zur Emissionsverringerung?" sind Prof. Dr. Uwe Schubert und Oliver Percl, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, der Ansicht, dass beim derzeitigen Wissensstand die...