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Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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Tariq Banuri
Hans Opschoor
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This paper argues that in the future the primary focus of policy research and global agreements should be the de-carbonization of economic development. Consequently, instead of treating climate stabilization and economic development as separate and equal, the strategy should be to re-integrate the two global policy goals, in part by separating responsibility (and funding) from action. This will require an approach that goes beyond Kyoto. The paper invokes the example of the Manhattan Project to argue for a massive, globally funded public investment program for the deployment of renewable energy technologies in developing countries.

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Paper provided by United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs in its series Working Papers with number 56.

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Length: 24 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2007
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Keywords: carbon emissions climate change sustainable development international cooperation mitigation adaptation

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Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters
Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounting
F59 - International Economics - - International Relations and International Political Economy - - - Other
H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H87 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - International Fiscal Issues; International Public Goods

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