Sustaining growth and mitigating climate change: Are the costs of mitigation underestimated?

Stephen Howes

doi:10.4337/9781781001073.00008

Sustaining growth and mitigating climate change: Are the costs of mitigation underestimated?

Stephen Howes^*

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Abstract

This chapter explores concerns in relation to standard and often-used estimates of the mitigation costs related to climate change, and assesses their validity. It begins with a brief survey of mitigation cost estimates, and then outlines and considers a range of issues in relation to them. The aim is to address in particular the apprehensions around whether the standard estimates of mitigation costs are too low.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Responding to Climate Change
Subtitle of host publication	Global Experiences and the Korean Perspective
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Pages	14-38
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Print)	9780857939951
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781001073.00008
Publication status	Published - 2012

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