Climate change: Back to development

Michel Damian (1) , Luigi de Paoli

1 GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble

The Paris Agreement has created a double bifurcation. First, from top-down approach (with an emission limit imposed from above) to a bottom-up approach based on national emissions reduction pledges. And second, from a mitigation-centered policy to a more balanced mitigation and adaptation efforts. The following work proposes, however, that further steps must be taken to bring the theme of development back to the center of the fight against climate change.

Mots clés: climate change; adaptation; mitigation; Paris agreement; sustainable development

Domaines: Economies et finances

Michel Damian, Luigi de Paoli. Climate change: Back to development. Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, 2018, LIX (2017) (3), pp.5 - 24. ⟨10.3280/EFE2017-003001⟩. ⟨hal-01870974⟩