The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation
Implications and Policies

This book provides all the necessary elements to understand the macroeconomic implications of decarbonisation.

Grégory Claeys (Author), Marie Le Mouel (Author), Simone Tagliapietra (Author), Guntram B. Wolff (Author), Georg Zachmann (Author)

9781009438360, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 February 2024

346 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg

'[T]he authors have done a great job of explaining the various macroeconomic aspects of decarbonization in a simple but not simplistic manner. … Highly recommended.' A. A. Batabyal, Choice

Decarbonisation is the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions using low carbon power sources, lowering output of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. This is essential to meet global temperature standards set by international climate agreements. To limit global warming to 1.5°C, hence avoiding the worst-case scenarios predicted by climate science, the world economy must rapidly reduce its emissions and reach climate neutrality within the next three decades. This will not be an easy journey. Shifting away from carbon-intensive production will require a historic transformation of the structure of our economies. Written by a team of academics linked to the European think tank Bruegel, The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation provides a guide to the macroeconomic fundamentals of decarbonisation. It identifies the major economic transformations, both over the long- and short-run, and the roadblocks requiring policy intervention. It proposes a macroeconomic policy agenda for decarbonisation to achieve the climate goals of the international community.

Introduction
1. Understanding deep decarbonisation over the long run
2. Understanding decarbonisation's short-term disruptions to economic activity
3. The distributional effects of climate policy
4. Public finances and decarbonisation
5. Greening innovation, industrial and competition policies
6. Mobilising the financial system for decarbonisation
7. Decarbonisation and labour markets
8. Greening central banks
Conclusions: the macroeconomics of decarbonisation: between degrowth and green growth.

Subject Areas: Environmental economics [KCN]