Learning and climate change

O'Neill, B., Crutzen, P., Grubler, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-4990, Duong, M.H., Keller, K., Kolstad, C., Koomey, J., Lange, A., Obersteiner, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-2769, Oppenheimer, M., Pepper, W., Sanderson, W., Schlesinger, M., Treich, N., Ulph, A., Webster, M., & Wilson, C. (2006). Learning and climate change. Climate Policy 6 (5) 585-589. 10.1080/14693062.2006.9685623.

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Abstract

Learning—i.e. the acquisition of new information that leads to changes in our assessment of uncertainty—plays a prominent role in the international climate policy debate. For example, the view that we should postpone actions until we know more continues to be influential. The latest work on learning and climate change includes new theoretical models, better informed simulations of how learning affects the optimal timing of emissions reductions, analyses of how new information could affect the prospects for reaching and maintaining political agreements and for adapting to climate change, and explorations of how learning could lead us astray rather than closer to the truth. Despite the diversity of this new work, a clear consensus on a central point is that the prospect of learning does not support the postponement of emissions reductions today.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Learning; Uncertainty; Climate Change; Decision analysis
Research Programs:	Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) World Population (POP) Transitions to New Technologies (TNT)
Depositing User:	Michaela Rossini
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2016 10:05
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:26
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/12293

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