Global Commons Institute - Papers and Reviews

In-depth Comment on Aspects of Climate Change and the Negotiations

The Possible Costs of Climate Change (pdf, right-click to download)

Introduces a scenario with extrapolation of existing trends showing damages exceeding global GDP by 2065.
From the Journal of Environmental Finance, May 2000.  Aubrey Meyer and Tony Cooper


The Kyoto Protocol and the Emergence of "Contraction and Convergence" as a Framework for an International Political Solution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abatement (pdf, right-click to download)

In "Man-Made Climate Change - Economic Aspects and Policy Options",Olaf Hohmayer and Klaus Rennings (Eds), Zentrum für Europäischer Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW).


Guesswork or Framework

Argues the case for a structured global framework as a precondition for attaining the goals of the FCCC
Aubrey Meyer, March 2000


A review of Michael Grubb's "The Kyoto Protocol - a Guide and an Assessment''

Aubrey Meyer December 1999


A Recalculation of the Social Costs of Climate Change:

Aubrey Meyer and Tony Cooper, GCI  - An Occasional Paper in the Ecologist Series, October 1995


The Unequal Use of the Global Commons

Aubrey Meyer; produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 3 workshop on "Equity and Social Considerations of climate change", Nairobi 18-23 July 1995.


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