The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels. — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some poor countries… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
