Climate Change: Design Approaches for a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program

Parker, Larry

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Climatic changes;    Greenhouse gases;    Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric;   

RP-ID  :  RL33799
RP-ID  :  RL33799_2008Jan04

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report explores strategies to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and options to address the cost issue in four parts. First, the basic economic tradeoff between controlling the quantity of GHG emissions and the program's compliance costs is introduced and explained. Second, the five dimensions of the cost issue that have arisen so far in the climate change debate are identified and discussed. Third, a representative sample of proposed approaches to address cost concerns is compared and analyzed according to the five cost dimensions identified previously. Finally, the proposed options are summarized and opportunities to combine or merge different approaches are analyzed.