caa a22 4500 469037873 CHVBK 20180323132800.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00142429 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00142429 Green Christopher Department of Economics and Centre for Climate and Global Change Research, McGill University, H3A 2T7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut Economics and the ‘greenhouse effect' [Elektronische Daten] [Christopher Green] There is growing scientific and public concern that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will produce global warming and other climatic changes. Although economic activity is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions, information and incentive problems make it difficult to translate concern about global warming into economic behaviour and policy conducive to reducing emissions. The paper considers a set of near term (carbon tax), intermediate term (afforestation, energy efficiency) and long term (new non-fossil fuel technologies) strategies for reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. Each strategy has useful attributes, but shortcomings or limitations too. While the near term and intermediate term strategies can slow and perhaps reverse the growth of CO2 emissions, only a successful long term strategy of fostering the development of some promising non-fossil fuel technologies, such as solar and solar-hydrogen, can eventually halt the build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere. Moreover, public investment in the development of new non-fossil fuel technologies would largely obviate the information and incentive problems that currently stand in the way of an economically viable greenhouse policy. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/4(1992-12-01), 265-291 0165-0009 22:4<265 1992 22 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142429 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142429 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Green Christopher Department of Economics and Centre for Climate and Global Change Research, McGill University, H3A 2T7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 22/4(1992-12-01), 265-291 0165-0009 22:4<265 1992 22 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer