Complex & interdisciplinary (continued)

• ECONOMICS

• • population growth & economic growth as climate-change drivers
  • costs of abatement, adaptation, and impacts
  • consequences of alternative regimes of action & inaction for economic growth, employment, trade

• POLITICS & POLICY

• • policy options and their impact on outcomes
  • actors and interests in the climate debate…and the evolution of perceptions & interests over time
  • finding a global climate-policy framework that is adequate, equitable, and attainable
  • uncertainty and prudence in public policy on climate