Free Market
Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets: A Free Market Approach to the Uncertain Risks of Climate Change
Jonathon Adler, CEI Issue Analysis, 14 July 2000
Rather than adopt costly regulatory measures that serve to suppress energy use and economic growth, policy makers should seek to eliminate government interventions in the marketplace that obstruct emission reductions and discourage the adoption of lower emission technologies. Such an approach is a “no regrets” strategy, as these policy recommendations will provide economic and environmental benefits by fostering innovation and economic efficiency whether or not climate change is a serious threat.
Positive Environmentalism, a Convenient Truth
Tom Clogherty, Globalisation Institute, 2007
This report says that while many proposed solutions to climate change have the right intentions, they will ultimately fail to protect the planet. Instead, policymakers need to adopt "positive environmentalism". This view recognizes the importance of dealing with environmental problems but rejects the doom and gloom approach so commonly encountered. It sees the great environmental achievements over the past century and rejects the notion that there are long term limits to economic prosperity. It sees the importance of technology, innovation and economic growth in tackling climate change.
Rush to Fight Global Warming Misses Adaptation Opportunities
Robert L. Bradley Jr., Environment & Climate News, 1 July 2007
The first in a two-part series exploring how industry and society at large might respond to predicted climate change.
Adaptive Management of Climate Change Risks
Indur Goklany, The Fraser Institute, March 1, 2007
Through the next few decades, reduction of climate-related risks can be achieved most cost-effectively by reducing vulnerability to climate-sensitive threats that might be exacerbated by climate change rather than through any significant emission reduction.
Adaptation to Five Metres of Sea Level Rise
Tol, R.S.J., et. al., Journal of Risk Research v9 i5 (2006): 467-482.
Investigation of society’s response to a five-meter sea level rise within a century, starting in 2030
A Climate Policy for the Short and Medium Term: Stabilization or Adaptation?”
Indur Goklany, Energy & Environment 16(2005): 667-680.
An evaluation of the global impacts ofclimate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associatedwith different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability tovarious climate-sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastalflooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at leastfor the next few decades, risks and/or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.
"Potential for Reducing Carbon Emissions from Non-Annex B Countries through Changes in Technology,"
David Montgomery, Charles River Associates, 31 March 2004
Increased investment and technology transfer could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries while promoting, rather than retarding, economic growth.
Creative Approaches to the Challenges of Global Climate Change
Spencer Abraham, World Energy, January 1, 2003
Vigorous and sustained economic growth is critical for new investment in energy efficiency, cutting-edge technologies and a cleaner environment.
Weathering Climate Change: Some Simple Rules to Guide Adaptation Decisions’
Fankhauser,S., J.B. Smith and R.S.J. Tol, Ecological Economics, 30 (1999): 67-78.
Authors discuss the elements that would characterize an efficient strategy to adapt to a changing climate