Climate Change Economics

This book establishes theories and methods of climate change economics based on the perspective of human development. The book, in two volumes, consists of papers and research reports authored by Pan Jiahua or researchers under his guidance. Professor Pan Jiahua is a leading figure in the field of political economy in climate change and has written extensively. The book is divided into four parts, covering theories, methods, governance, and policies. 

• The theory part includes the general economics of climate change, the political economy of climate change, carbon emissions, and human development. 

• The method part covers the economic analysis of greenhouse gas reduction and economics of low-carbon economic development. 

• The governance is on the design and construction of international climate regimes and China's role and choice. 

• Finally, the policy part consists of three chapters: policy choices for low-carbon transformation, energy-saving emission reduction, and low-carbon development and adaptation to climate change. 

The disciplines involved in climate change economics include welfare economics, development economics, international political economics, and property rights economics. In the context of multidisciplinary cross-cutting, the economics of climate change has evolved. The book proposes theories, methods and offers policy solutions and cases. It is of high academic and empirical value for developing countries to strive for fair rights and interests in international climate negotiations, obtain development space, and pursue a low-carbon and ecological economy. Professor Jiahua Pan and his team at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have contributed greatly to the development of climate change economics in China. Their work has laid the foundation of climate change economics from basic concepts, frameworks, and systems and has a great significance in promoting the development of 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.