Climate Protection Requirements –the Economic Impact of Climate Change

Claudia Kemfert

Chapter 42 in Handbook Utility Management, 2008, pp 725-739 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In order to avoid severe climate change, it is necessary to stabilize global greenhouse gas concentrations at about today's level. Significant emission reduction would require the countries that are primarily responsible to implement emissions- reducing measures immediately. The sooner a policy of climate protection is implemented, the less climate change damage humankind will face in future decades. The impacts of climate change are highly uncertain. However, the recent UN climate report confirms that more severe extreme climate impacts will cause economic damage. Future climate policy needs ideally to be global and long term.

Keywords: climate protection; climate change; economic impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79349-6_42

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