On the Timing of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: A Final Rejoinder to the Symposium on 'The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and its Critics'

Dietz, Simon; Stern, Nicholas

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On the Timing of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: A Final Rejoinder to the Symposium on 'The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and its Critics'

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 138-140, 2009

5 Pages Posted: 5 Feb 2009 Last revised: 29 Oct 2013

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Simon Dietz

London School of Economics - Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Department of Geography and Environment

Nicholas Stern

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

Date Written: February 5, 2009

Abstract

In this final rejoinder to the symposium on "The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and Its Critics", we respond to comments published in the last issue of this journal by Robert Mendelsohn, Thomas Sterner and U. Martin Persson, and John P. Weyant (Mendelsohn et al. 2008). In particular, we examine the point of debate with arguably the greatest practical importance for ongoing negotiations over an international agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol: namely the appropriate timing of global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Keywords: climate change

JEL Classification: Q54

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Dietz, Simon and Stern, Nicholas, On the Timing of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: A Final Rejoinder to the Symposium on 'The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and its Critics' (February 5, 2009). Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 138-140, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1338173