By Mark Cooper
Providing severe insights that may curiosity readers starting from economists to environmentalists, policymakers, and politicians, this ebook analyzes the economics and expertise traits eager about the quandary of decarbonization and addresses why competitive coverage is needed in a capitalist political economic system to create a sea swap clear of fossil fuels.
• offers entire and comprehensible studies of greater than two hundred contemporary empirical stories of marketplace imperfections within the strength potency and weather swap literature, offering a foundation for concentrating on rules on the most vital motives of terrible marketplace performance
• Argues that competitive motion to urge switch and conquer resistance, utilizing unique rules instead of broad-based taxes, is the method that might create circulation in the direction of a decarbonized financial system and world
• offers a logical decision-making framework and portfolio research that permits policymakers and regulators to settle on, clarify, and safeguard their judgements, objectively and transparently
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