Kyoto's Unfinished Business

Joint Program Report
Kyoto's Unfinished Business
Jacoby, H.D., R.G. Prinn and R. Schmalensee (1998)
Joint Program Report Series, 12 pages

Report 32 [Download]

Abstract/Summary:

  The authors offer a provisional assessment of where the Kyoto negotiations have left the climate change issue. They present a few widely divergent assesments of what the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change will accomplish, and describe some differing interpretations of its text in the context of the underlying international disagreement, as well as in differing perceptions of the underlying science and economics. The paper includes a brief but up-to-date summary of what we know and don't know about human influences on climate, and what it might take to restrain them.

Citation:

Jacoby, H.D., R.G. Prinn and R. Schmalensee (1998): Kyoto's Unfinished Business. Joint Program Report Series Report 32, 12 pages (http://globalchange.mit.edu/publication/14156)
  • Joint Program Report
Kyoto's Unfinished Business

Jacoby, H.D., R.G. Prinn and R. Schmalensee

Report 

32
12 pages
1998

Abstract/Summary: 

  The authors offer a provisional assessment of where the Kyoto negotiations have left the climate change issue. They present a few widely divergent assesments of what the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change will accomplish, and describe some differing interpretations of its text in the context of the underlying international disagreement, as well as in differing perceptions of the underlying science and economics. The paper includes a brief but up-to-date summary of what we know and don't know about human influences on climate, and what it might take to restrain them.