Decarbonizing development : three steps to a zero-carbon future /

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Main Author: Fay, Marianne (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebooks Corporation
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : World Bank Group, [2015]
Series:Climate change and development series
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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
  • pt. 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
  • 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
  • pt. II Enabling a Low-Carbon Transition: Prices and More
  • 4. Getting Prices Right
  • Necessary Step: Removing Fossil-Fuel Subsidies
  • 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
  • pt. 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.