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We're from Wall Street, and we're here to help
McKinsey report shatters myths on cost of curbing climate change |
Joseph Romm |
27 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The McKinsey Global Institute has published another terrific piece of analysis, 'The carbon productivity challenge: curbing climate change and sustaining economic growth.' MGI is best known for its comprehensive cost curve for global greenhouse gas reduction measures (reprinted below), which came to the stunning conclusion that the measures needed to stabilize emissions at 450 pppm have a net cost near zero. The new report has its own stunning conclusion: In fact, ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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Fuzzy math
How much will it really cost to address climate change? |
Andrew Dessler |
12 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| One of the consistent claims made by those opposed to policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is that the cost will be prohibitive. I have always been somewhat suspicious of this claim, however. When I started graduate school in 1988, the Montreal Protocol had just been signed. It required industrialized countries to significantly reduce the production of chlorofluorocarbons within a decade or so (the exact schedule of production reduction depended on the particu ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, economy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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Breaking the U.S.-China suicide pact
William Chandler's recommendations on how we can cooperate to lower emissions |
Joseph Romm |
28 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| William Chandler, director of the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, has borrowed my phrase for the title of his new study: 'Breaking the Suicide Pact: U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change.' It begins: Together, China and the United States produce 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Their actions to curb or expand energy consumption will determine whether efforts to stop global climate change succeed or fail. If these two nations act to curb emissions, ... |
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| Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, United States (all these topics) |
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