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The Cop21 Agreement: A Giant Illusion?

Journal of Economics and Public Finance

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Title The Cop21 Agreement: A Giant Illusion?
 
Creator Lane, Jan-Erik
 
Description The policy sciences, enquiring into the making and implementation of public decisions, has made several stunning findings that are highly relevant to the COP21 Agreement or Treaty if you so wish. They constitute the so-called “implementation gap” or the “hiatus of policy implementation”, analysed by late American Aaron Wildavsky and also Paul Sabatier. The enormous enthusiasm for the COP21 framework must be dampened when confronted with the lessons from policy implementation, especially in such an extremely decentralised approach taking place over so many years. But the signatories have to decide now how to halt the increase in greenhouse gases (GHG), especially the CO2:s in order to start decreasing them, hopefully (naively) to zero in 80 years. As the emergence of economically viable renewable energy is slow, the only quick solution is to remove coal as an energy source. That would resolve the star economist Jeffrey Sachs dilemma that decarbonisation would result in negative economic growth.
 
Publisher SCHOLINK INC.
 
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Date 2016-02-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jepf/article/view/490
10.22158/jepf.v2n1p34
 
Source Journal of Economics and Public Finance; Vol 2, No 1 (2016); p34
2377-1046
2377-1038
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jepf/article/view/490/456
 
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