The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review
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...This is a profound dilemma because the predominant paradigm of social and economic development remains largely oblivious to the risk of humaninduced environmental disasters at continental to planetary scales (Stern 2007)....
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...…at the continental to global scale, but may, through continuous decline of key ecological functions (such as carbon sequestration), cause functional collapses, generating feedbacks that trigger or increase the likelihood of a global threshold in other processes (such as climate change) (Fig....
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...Indeed, for h 5 and d 5 0, with positive growth the time integral is on the borderline of convergence (Stern 2007, 58)....
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...There are many paths for stabilization at a given level—see, for example, Stern Review Figure 8.2 (Stern 2007, 226)—but all of them are a similar shape to those shown (if a path peaks later it has to fall faster)....
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...…of the Stern Review, published on the Web in October/November 2006 (see http://www. sternreview.org.uk, including Postscript) and in book form (Stern 2007) a year ago, but goes beyond it in many important ways—in relation to subsequent policy discussions, new evidence and analysis, and…...
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...A choice among paths means also choosing the implied set of discount rates associated with the paths (Stern 2007, 27–3 ; for more on this issue see Cameron Hepburn 2006)....
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...The scale of markets for new technologies will be very large (IEA 2006); see also Samuel Fankhauser, Friedel Sehlleier, and Stern (2007) for an assessment of investment and employment opportunities, which are likely to be positive....
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