Are the economic costs of (non-)stabilising the atmosphere prohibitive? A comment

Gerlagh, Reyer and Papyrakis, Elissaios (2003) Are the economic costs of (non-)stabilising the atmosphere prohibitive? A comment. Ecological Economics, 46 (3). pp. 325-327. ISSN 1873-6106

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Abstract

In a recent paper in this journal, Azar and Schneider present carbon abatement costs as a few years delay in an increasing path of welfare and they suggest the adoption of stricter abatement policies to avoid climate change. We show that the same argument can be used to derive the opposite conclusion. In most studies, not only abatement costs, but also climate change costs represent a small loss in future welfare. The reason for this is the implicit assumption of perfect long-term substitutability between man-made and environmental goods that many of these models adopt. We argue that, instead of downplaying the costs of abatement measures, we should try to better understand the substitutability possibilities between man-made and environmental goods, that is, the character of long-term costs of climate change.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Climate Change Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Globalisation and CSR
Depositing User:	Elissaios Papyrakis
Date Deposited:	15 Apr 2011 11:13
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2023 12:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/29462
DOI:	10.1016/S0921-8009(03)00163-0

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