title: Can We Price Carbon? (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)
author: Barry G. Rabe
description: Fitting of the diverse and complex histories of carbon pricing, Rabe offers no silver bullet. However, his careful scholarship and thoughtful analysis yield many important and nuanced insights.</P><I>Nature Climate Change</I>
zlib_text: Carbon calculus P.6
  Fifty shades  
  of green P.12
  The adaptive age P.20
  DECEMBER 2019
  The Economics 
  of Climate 
  
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  Contents
  We should 
  treat the 
  natural world 
  as we would 
  the economic 
  world and 
  protect 
  our natural 
  capital.
  4
  4 
  The Greatest Balancing Act
   
  Nature and the global economy
   
  David Attenborough and Christine Lagarde
  6 
  Carbon Calculus
   
  For deep greenhouse gas emission reductions,  
   
  a long-term perspective on costs is essential
   
  Kenneth Gillingham 
  12 Fifty Shades of Green
   
  The world needs a new, sustainable financial system  
   
  to stop runaway climate change
   
  Mark Carney 
  16 Putting a Price on Pollution
   
  Carbon-pricing strategies could hold the key to  
   
  meeting the world’s climate stabilization goals 
   
  Ian Parry
  22 Investing in Resilience
   
  Disaster-prone countries are strengthening  
   
  their ability to withstand climate events
   
  Bob S