The year 2015 will be a landmark year for international climate change negotiations. Governments have agreed to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in 2015....

The US is currently the second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world and one of the highest ranked countries in terms of per capita emissions. Along with other major economies, it will have to cut emissions much more sharply if the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...

There is much evidence that high-carbon growth will eventually become a contradiction in terms, or, as Lord Stern puts it, “High-carbon growth would kill itself” (Stern, 2010a). This chapter considers the implications for growth of the findings of the literature on climate change mitigation...