DP7141 What is the Top Priority on Climate Change?

Author(s):	Paul Klemperer
Publication Date:	January 2009
Keyword(s):	climate change mitigation, sustainability
JEL(s):	Q5, Q54, Q56, Q58
Programme Areas:	Public Economics, Development Economics
Link to this Page:	cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7141

What should be the West's top priority for climate-change policy? This article is a revised and updated version of my talk to the Potsdam Global Sustainability Symposium (which drafted the Potsdam Declaration presented to the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali).