Burden-sharing and climate change policy beyond Kyoto: implications for developing countries

摘要

Bert Bolin has written an excellent summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Second Assessment Report and provided Valuable insight to its broader implications. My comments will be confined Mainly to three of the policy-related points in his paper: 1. Because impacts cannot yet be estimated very well, traditional Cost-benefit analyses are hardly possible at this stage because of the Need to assess future damages reasonably well. 2. Cost estimates are, however, important for the choice of strategies and to reach agreements on how to share the burdens within countries, between countries and between generations (author's emphasis). 3. Social and political values, to the least concerning equity, come into play as has so clearly been seen in the past. This will certainly also be the case in the future.