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Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2009 3(1):138-140; doi:10.1093/reep/ren022
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Note—On the Timing of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: A Final Rejoinder to the Symposium on "The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and its Critics"

Simon Dietz* and Nicholas Stern{dagger}

* Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
{dagger} Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Tel: +44-0-207-955-7589; Fax: +44-0-207-955-7412; e-mail: s.dietz@lse.ac.uk

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In this final rejoinder to the symposium on "The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review and Its Critics," we respond to comments published in the last issue of this journal by Robert Mendelsohn, Thomas Sterner and U. Martin Persson, and John P. Weyant (Mendelsohn et al. 2008). In particular, we examine the point of debate with arguably the greatest practical importance for ongoing negotiations over an international agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol: namely the appropriate timing of global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Too often in the past, this debate has been presented as one between the poles of "act now" and "wait-and-see". Weyant (see Weyant's . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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