Better Growth, Helping the Paris COP-out?

2014/10/02 by Clive L. Spash, Spash, Clive L. · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Environmental Science · Energy · #Climate Change Policy and Economics #Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy #Global Energy and Sustainability Research

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Abstract

As time passes the failure of the Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change becomes seemingly inevitable. The expectation that a major breakthrough will come from the current vested interests supporting the resource extracting, fossil-fuel driven growth economies of the world seems nothing but a fantasy. Yet this is what the document released in September 2014 called “Better Growth Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report: The Synthesis Report” would like us to believe. Is this just another copout to help the COP out of their collective political failure?

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