Overview -- Baseline emissions under business as usual -- Abatement initiatives in the Copenhagen Accord and Cancun Agreements -- Abatement cost functions -- Abatement costs through 2050 -- Trade and timing -- Estimating investment requirements and adaptation costs -- Synthesis.
Summary
Examines the likely abatement costs associated with keeping global warming within the 2 degree Celsius above preindustrial temperature ceiling and discusses what would need to be invested annually up until the year 2020 to maintain the goal.
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