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Should The Ipcc Assessment Reports Be An Integrated Assessment?

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  • ROBERT MENDELSOHN

    (Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511, USA)

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The IPCC Report on Climate Change 2014 contains an enormous treasure trove of facts about natural science, mitigation, and potential impacts. However, the components of the report are sufficiently disconnected from each other, that it is not possible to reach policy insights into the merits of alternative mitigation or adaptation actions, where they should occur, when they should begin, and what policy tools are critical. Each Working Group has charged ahead with independent assumptions that obscure any possibility of an integrated assessment. The Report provides an authoritative collection of climate related materials but is organized so poorly that it provides very little insight into how to solve the climate problem. The Working Groups are not coordinated on a common mission to understand policy alternatives. The Reports consequently miss a great opportunity to organize science to inform policy makers of the way forward.

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  • Robert Mendelsohn, 2016. "Should The Ipcc Assessment Reports Be An Integrated Assessment?," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(01), pages 1-8, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ccexxx:v:07:y:2016:i:01:n:s2010007816400029
    DOI: 10.1142/S2010007816400029
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    1. S. Niggol Seo, 2017. "Beyond the Paris Agreement: Climate change policy negotiations and future directions," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 9(2), pages 121-140, June.

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