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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460387303321

Titolo

Decarbonizing development : three steps to a zero-carbon future / / Marianne Fay [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : World Bank Group, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4648-0606-3

1-4648-0480-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Climate Change and Development Series

Disciplina

628.532

Soggetti

Carbon dioxide mitigation

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Atmospheric carbon dioxide - Environmental aspects

Carbon - Environmental aspects

Fossil fuels - Environmental aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Overview""; ""Planning for a Low-Carbon Future: What We Need to Do Now Depends on the End Goal""; ""Enabling the Transition with a Policy Package That Is Efficient, Acceptable, and Credible""; ""Managing the Transition: Protecting Poor People and Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of Reforms""; ""In Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Part I: Planning for a Low-Carbon Future: What to Do Now Depends on the End Goal""; ""1. Reducing Carbon Emissions to Zero""; ""Stabilizing the Climate Requires Zero Net Emissions""

""Zero Net Emissions Requires Action on Four Fronts""""Notes""; ""References""; ""2. Acting Sooner Rather than Later""; ""Feasible Really Means Cost-Effective""; ""Cost-Effectiveness Requires Early Action""; ""The Costs of Early Action Should Be Modest""; ""Early Action Paths Are Prudent""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""3. Planning Ahead with an Eye on the End Goal""; ""Factor in Uncertainty, Disagreement, and Multiple Objectives""; ""Focus on What Is Urgent and Carries Co-Benefits"";



""Build Sectoral Pathways to Carbon Neutrality""

""Annex 3A: Tools to Develop Sectoral Pathways to Zero Emissions""""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part II: Enabling a Low-Carbon Transition: Prices and More""; ""4. Getting Prices Right""; ""A Necessary Step: Removing Fossil-Fuel Subsidies""; ""The Economics of Carbon Prices�Pretty Straightforward""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""5. Building Policy Packages That Are Acceptable, Credible, and Effective""; ""Ensuring the Needed Technologies Are Available and Affordable""; ""Ensuring the Needed Infrastructure Is in Place""

""Tackling Other Factors�Such as Behavior�That Reduce the Impact of Price Incentives""""Notes""; ""References""; ""6. Getting the Finance Flowing""; ""Growing the Pie""; ""Greening the Pie""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part III: Managing the Transition: Protecting the Poor and Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of Reforms""; ""7. Ensuring the Poor Benefit""; ""Direct Distributional Impacts of Right Pricing�Possibly Positive?""; ""Revenue Recycling Enables Redistribution and Allows for Pro-Poor Climate Policies""; ""Managing Perceived Impacts""

""Land-Use-Based Mitigation�Impacts Depend on Design""""Notes""; ""References""; ""8. Smoothing the Transition to Make It Happen""; ""Managing Concentrated Losses""; ""Managing the Fears of Competitiveness Loss""; ""Managing the Risk of Government Failures""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Boxes""; ""1.1 The “Full� Story on Greenhouse Gases""; ""2.1 An Extreme Case of Commitment�Urban Forms""; ""3.1 Short-Term Strategies Need to Be Designed Keeping the Long-Term Goal in Mind�Examples from Brazil and Germany""; ""3.2 A World Bank Software for Comparing Abatement Options: MACTool""

""3.3 Using Space to Design Deforestation Policies""

Sommario/riassunto

The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is compatible with countries' broader development goals. Here is what needs to be done:-Act early with an eye on the end-goal. To best achieve a given reduction in emissions in 2030 depends on whether t