Climate Change Economics

Pan Jiahua, Member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor of economics, the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Director of the Institute of Eco-civilization Studies, Beijing University of Technology. Pan received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1992 from the University of Cambridge. Appointed by the UN Secretary General in 2020, he is one of the 15 members of the Independent Group of Scientists drafting the Global Sustainable Development Report 2023. He is the President of the China Urban Economics Association, Vice President of China Ecological Civilization Research and Promotion Association, Vice Chair of the National Panel on Climate Change, and lead author of the Mitigation Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He once served as the President of the Research Institute for Eco-civilization, CASS, Member of the National Foreign Policy Advisory Committee, Senior Project Officer of the United Nations Development Programme, senior economist of the Technical Support Unit, IPCC Working Group III on Mitigation, and editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies. His main research areas include sustainable development economics, climate change economics, and new paradigm economics of eco-civilization, etc. He has authored and edited more than 10 academic monographs and published more than 300 papers on international journals such as Nature, Science, and Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and Chinese journals such as Economic Research Journal, Social Sciences in China. He won the second prize of the 2nd Outstanding Achievements of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the first prize of the 4th Outstanding Achievements of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the 14th Sun Yefang Economic Science Award.

• Foreword.- Part I Theoretical Framework of Climate Change Economics.- Chapter 1. Complexity of Climate Change as a Subject in Economics.- Chapter 2. A Critique of Conventional Economic Approaches to Climate Change.- Chapter 3. Climate as a Factor of Productivity.- Chapter 4. A Welfare Economics Analysis on the Vulnerability to Climate Change.- Chapter 5. Emissions Embedded in Trade.- Chapter 6. Prospects of Carbon Emissions as Bads for Trading.- Part II  A Budget Approach to Climate Justice and Security.- Chapter 7. Carbon Emissions Demands of Human Development.- Chapter 8. Achievements of Human Development Goals with Low Emissions.- Chapter 9. Measuring carbon emissions for basic necessities.- Chapter 10. Quantification of Historical Emission Responsibilities.- Chapter 11. A Carbon Budget Approach to Net Zero Emissions.