Economic perspectives on climate change loom large since the publication of the commonly called Stern Report, Economics of Climate Change. A great number of studies subsequently employ similar approaches. Considering the huge uncertainties in climate science, however, these calculations raise a...

This paper introduces this special issue on the 'Economics of climate change' and describes contemporary policy attitudes in the economics of climate change, it explores features and differences in some examples from a variety of economic policy approaches in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate...