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DOI | 10.1007/s10584-016-1846-3 |
The risk of climate ruin | |
Bettis, Oliver D.1; Dietz, Simon2,3; Silver, Nick G.1 | |
2017 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATIC CHANGE |
ISSN | 0165-0009 |
EISSN | 1573-1480 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 140期号:2 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England |
英文摘要 | How large a risk is society prepared to run with the climate system? This is a question of the utmost difficulty and it admits a variety of perspectives. In this paper we draw an analogy with the management and regulation of insurance companies, which are required to hold capital against the risk of their own financial ruin. Accordingly, we suggest that discussions about how much to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases could be framed in terms of managing the risk of 'climate ruin'. This shifts the focus towards deciding upon an acceptable risk of the very worst-case scenario, and away from how "avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" has come to be framed politically. Moreover it leads to the conclusion that, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions today and in the future, the world is running a higher risk with the climate system than insurance companies run with their own solvency. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000392425900002 |
WOS关键词 | THRESHOLDS ; EMISSIONS ; ECONOMICS ; TARGETS ; MODELS ; POLICY |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/30263 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Inst & Fac Actuaries, Resource & Environm Board, London, England; 2.London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, ESRC Ctr Climate Change Econ & Policy, Grantham Res Inst Climate Change & Environm, London, England; 3.London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Geog & Environm, London, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bettis, Oliver D.,Dietz, Simon,Silver, Nick G.. The risk of climate ruin[J]. CLIMATIC CHANGE,2017,140(2). |
APA | Bettis, Oliver D.,Dietz, Simon,&Silver, Nick G..(2017).The risk of climate ruin.CLIMATIC CHANGE,140(2). |
MLA | Bettis, Oliver D.,et al."The risk of climate ruin".CLIMATIC CHANGE 140.2(2017). |
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