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We should treat the natural world as we would the economic world and protect our natural capital.

  • THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE

  • The Greatest Balancing Act

  • Nature and the global economy

  • David Attenborough and Christine Lagarde

  • Carbon Calculus

  • For deep greenhouse gas emission reductions, a long-term perspective on costs is essential

  • Kenneth Gillingham

  • Fifty Shades of Green

  • The world needs a new, sustainable financial system to stop runaway climate change

  • Mark Carney

  • Putting a Price on Pollution

  • Carbon-pricing strategies could hold the key to meeting the world’s climate stabilization goals

  • Ian Parry

  • Investing in Resilience

  • Disaster-prone countries are strengthening their ability to withstand climate events

  • Bob Simison

  • Climate Change and Financial Risk

  • Central banks and financial regulators are starting to factor in climate change

  • Pierpaolo Grippa, Jochen Schmittmann, and Felix Suntheim

  • Reaping What We Sow

  • Smart changes to how we farm and eat can have a huge impact on our planet

  • Nicoletta Batini

  • Nature’s Solution to Climate Change

  • A strategy to protect whales can limit greenhouse gases and global warming

  • Ralph Chami, Thomas Cosimano, Connel Fullenkamp, and Sena Oztosun

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

  • Tackling Inequality

  • How can we address inequality in the 21st century? Start with climate change

  • Lyndsay Walsh

  • Grass Roots

  • From Brazil to New Zealand, local activists show that small-scale initiatives can make a difference

  • Daphne Ewing-Chow, Anna Jaquiery, Denise Marín, Ashlin Mathew, and David Smith

  • Hidden Giants

  • It’s time for more transparency in the management and governance of national oil companies

  • David Manley, David Mihalyi, and Patrick R. P. Heller

  • A Greener Future for Finance

  • The successes and challenges of green bonds offer lessons for sustainable finance

  • Afsaneh Beschloss and Mina Mashayekhi

  • The SDR’s Time Has Come

  • Rethinking the Special Drawing Right could bolster the IMF’s role in the global financial safety net

  • José Antonio Ocampo

DEPARTMENTS

  • Straight Talk

  • The Adaptive Age

  • No institution or individual can stand on the sidelines in the fight against climate change

  • Kristalina Georgieva

  • People in Economics

  • City Slicker

  • Chris Wellisz profiles Harvard’s Edward Glaeser, who sees urbanization as a path to prosperity

  • In the Trenches

  • Going against the Tide

  • Brazil’s Ilan Goldfajn explains why central bankers ought to follow their convictions

  • Currency Notes

  • Ahead of His Time

  • Mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing will appear on UK currency

  • Melinda Weir

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Finance & Development, December 2019: The Economics of Climate
Author:
International Monetary Fund. Communications Department