Can developed economies combat dangerous anthropogenic climate change without near-term reductions from developing economies?

Climatic Change

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 635-641

  Waldhoff, Stephanie T ^a   Fawcett, Allen A ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON MITIGATION; CLIMATE POLICY; DEVELOPED ECONOMIES; DEVELOPING ECONOMIES; EMISSIONS MITIGATION; ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL ACTIONS; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; POLICY SCENARIO; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; UNITED NATIONS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

GAS EMISSIONS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PROBABILITY;

CHINA; INDIA;

EID: 79960967500     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0132-7     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Boden T, Marland G, Andres RJ (2010) National CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel burning, cement manufacture, and gas flaring: 1751-2007. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Oak Ridge National Laboratory. http://cdiac. ornl. gov/ftp/ndp030/nation1751_2007. ems. Accessed 28 February 2011.
2. 2 equivalent in the 21st century. Energy Econ 31(2): S107-S120. doi: 10. 1016/j. eneco. 2009. 06. 006.
3. Clarke LE, Edmonds J, Krey V, Richels RG, Rose S, Tavoni M (2009) International climate policy architectures: overview of the EMF 22 international scenarios. Energy Econ 31(2): S64-S81. doi: 10. 1016/j. eneco. 2009. 10. 013.
4. Driessen P (2009) Back to the "Good Old Days." www. globalwarming. org/2009/05/01/back-to-the-good-old-days/. Accessed 26 October 2010.
5. RPC Energy Facts (2009) U. S. cap-and-trade without international action: all pain and no gain. http://rpc. senate. gov/public/files/EnergyFactsInternationalAction. pdf. Accessed 26 October 2010.
6. Roe G, Baker M (2007) Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science 318: 629-632. doi: 10. 1126/science. 1144735.
7. United Nations (2009) Report of the conference of the parties on its fifteenth session, held in Copenhagen from 7 to 19 December 2009: Decision 2/CP. 15: Copenhagen Accord. http://unfccc. int/resource/docs/2009/cop15/eng/11a01. pdf#page=4. Accessed 15 February 2011.
8. U. S. Energy Information Administration (2010) International energy outlook 2010. Washington, DC.
9. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (2010) EPA analysis of the American power act in the 111th congress. http://www. epa. gov/climatechange/economics/pdfs/EPA_APA_Analysis_6-14-10. pdf. Accessed 25 October 2010.
10. U. S. Government Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon (2010) Technical support document: social cost of carbon for regulatory impact analysis under Executive Order 12866. http://www. epa. gov/otaq/climate/regulations/scc-tsd. pdf. Accessed 28 October 2010.
11. White House (2009) Fact Sheet: Meeting the Internatoal Clean Energy and Climate Change Challenges. http://www. whitehouse. gov/the-press-office/fact-sheet-meeting-international-cleanenergy-and-climate-change-challenges.
12. Webster M, Forest C, Reilly J, Babiker M, Kicklighter D, Mayer M, Prinn, Sarofim M, Sokolov A, Stone P, Wang C (2003) Uncertainty analysis of climate change and policy response. Clim Change 61(3): 295-320. doi: 10. 1023/B: CLIM. 0000004564. 09961. 9f.
13. Wigley T (2011) MAGICC v. 5. 3. http://www. cgd. ucar. edu/cas/wigley/magicc/. Accessed 3 March 2011.
14. Weitzman M (2010) GHG targets as nsurance against catastrophic climate damages. http://www. economics. harvard. edu/faculty/weitzman/files/1A1A. InsuranceCatastrophicRisks. pdf.