1. Setting the Stage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Contents
Executive Summary
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Cost-effective Mitigation
1.2.1 Introduction
1.2.2 The Costs of Climate Change Mitigation
1.2.3 The Role of Technology
1.2.4 The Role of Uncertainty
1.2.5 Distributional Impacts and Equity Considerations
1.2.6 Sustainability Considerations
1.3 Equity and Sustainable Development
1.3.1 What Is the Challenge?
1.3.2 What Are the Options?
1.3.3 How Has Global Climate Policy Treated Equity?
1.3.4 Assessment of Alternatives: Sustainable Development
1.3.5 Why Worry about Equity and Sustainable Development?
1.4 Global Sustainability and Climate Change Mitigation
1.4.1 Alternative Development Pathways
1.4.2 Decoupling Growth from Resource Flows
1.4.2.1 Eco-intelligent Production Systems
1.4.2.2 Resource-light Infrastructures
1.4.2.3 Appropriate Technologies
1.4.2.4 Full Cost Pricing
1.4.3 Decoupling Wellbeing from Production
1.4.3.1 Intermediate Performance Levels
1.4.3.2 Regionalization
1.4.3.3 Appropriate Lifestyles
1.4.3.4 Community Resource Rights
1.5 Integrating Across the Essential DomainsCost-
effectiveness, Equity, and Sustainability
1.5.1 Mitigative CapacityA Tool for Integration
1.5.1.1 Integrating Environmental, Social,
and Economic Objectives in the Third Assessment Report
1.5.1.2 Expanding the Scope of Integration
1.5.2 Lessons from Integrated Analyses
1.5.3 Mitigation Research: Current Lessons and Future
Directions
References
Co-ordinating Lead Authors:
Tariq Banuri (Pakistan), John Weyant (USA)
Lead Authors:
Grace Akumu (Kenya), Adil Najam (Pakistan), Luiz Pinguelli Rosa (Brazil), Steve
Rayner (USA), Wolfgang Sachs (Germany), Ravi Sharma (India/UNEP), Gary Yohe
(USA)
Contributing Authors:
Anil Agarwal (India), Steve Bernow (USA), Robert Costanza (USA), Thomas Downing
(USA), Sivan Kartha (USA), Ashok Khosla (India), Ambuj Sagar (India), John Robinson
(Canada), Ferenc Toth (Germany)
Review Editors:
Hans Opschoor (The Netherlands), Kirit Parikh (India)
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