In this post I am going to give a summary of the third part of Climate Economics: The State of the Art by Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth Stanton of the Stockholm Environment Institute, concerning recent research in the economics of mitigation and adaptation. Part 1, with a discussion of newest results from the climate science, can be found here. Part 2, summarizing the report’s findings about the economics of climate change, here. Continue reading
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Climate Justice
I would like to recommend a post written by James Boyce from the TripleCrisis blog – “The Climate Justice Imperative”. Though Boyce writes about the US, I think that his recommendations are generalizable for all developed countries. In his text he points out that there are four pillars that make climate justice critical: Continue reading
Don’t Forget Adaptation
The Economist, normally not exactly the best source of information in the area of climate change, published an article really worth reading. It begins with some interesting remarks on Cancún: Continue reading
The Sceptical Economist 