This report has various objectives: (i) to provide an overview of the climate Integrated Assessment approach; (ii) to describe the Global Climate Assessment Model (GCAM); (iii) to outline the new IPCC scenario framework represented by the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) and the...

A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "ordinary" taxation. The authors examine the potential 'double dividend' from tax reform for helping the...

Front Cover -- Contents -- The Book at a Glance -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- A Vulnerable Region -- Climate Change and Living Standards -- Climate Modeling and Effects -- Hotspots -- Toward Greater Resilience -- References -- Chapter 1 A...

1. Introduction -- 2. Blueprint for a green economy in the twenty-first century -- 3. Sustainable development -- 4. Progress in valuing the environment -- 5. Accounting for the environment and sustainability -- 6. Progress in prices and incentives for environmental improvement -- 7. Towards a...

Using spatially desegregated data on measures of pollution to derive economic damage estimates, the main purpose of the book is to gauge the environmental damage sustained as a result of economic activities and to offer an insight into how the information generated can be used in conjunction...