TY  - JOUR
AU  - Branstetter, Lee G
AU  - Pizer, William A
TI  - Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 18214
PY  - 2012
Y2  - July 2012
DO  - 10.3386/w18214
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18214
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18214.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Lee G. Branstetter
Heinz College
School of Public Policy and Management
Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
Tel: 412/268-4649
E-Mail: branstet@andrew.cmu.edu

William A. Pizer
Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Box 90312
Durham, NC 27708
Tel: 919/613-9286
Fax: 877/240-9880
E-Mail: billy.pizer@duke.edu
M1  - published as Lee Branstetter, William Pizer. "Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy," in Robert C. Feenstra and Alan M. Taylor, editors, "Globalization in an Age of Crisis: Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century" University of Chicago Press (2014)

AB  - Over the past two decades, the international community has struggled to deal constructively with the problem of mitigating climate change.  This is considered by many to be the preeminent public policy challenge of our time, but actual policy responses have been relatively modest. This essay provides an abbreviated narrative history of international policy in this domain, with a special emphasis on aspects of the problem, proposed solutions, and unresolved issues that are of interest to international economists and informed observers of the global economic system.  We also discuss the potential conflict that could emerge between free trade principles on the one hand and environmental policy objectives on the other.
ER  -