This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of key issues related to climate change to economists. For this … purpose, we first discuss the established scientific facts of climate change and then discuss their implications to the … economy and the field of economics. We start with explaining scientific consensus on climate change, types of climate risks …

This paper summarizes the economics of climate change. We first review the basics of climate science and the historical … evolution of greenhouse gas emissions. We then discuss the relation between climate change and economics and assess the economic … costs, direct and indirect, of climate change. These costs are uncertain and sensitive to the choice of discount rate, but …

initiatives: (i) multilateral agreements on climate protection strategies and (ii) trade agreements towards global trade … theoretical analyses and numerical simulations, the book provides guidelines on efficient strategies for climate change mitigation … with existing and possible trade agreements on various levels. The analyses incorporate important real-world features, such …

. Climate protection is such a good and it faces a triple dilemma: the so-called Westphalian dilemma of sovereign nation states …, a weakest-link dilemma as the success of climate protection depends on all nation states and an inequality of … development dilemma concerning the costs of climate protection. ‘Climate clubs’ have been suggested to solve the free-rider issue …

Global climate change poses a threat to the well-being of humans and other living things through impacts on ecosystem … climate change, including theoretical insights and empirical findings that offer guidance to policy makers. Section 1 frames … the climate change problem and indicates the ways that economic research can address it. Section 2 describes approaches to …