CLIMATE COMMON SENSE: 3/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)

CLIMATE COMMON SENSE: 3/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)

https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618603521&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1

How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change.

Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more

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