European climate finance: securing the best return. Bruegel Policy Brief ISSUE 2015/03, 11 September 2015

Wolff, Guntram B. and Zachmann, Georg. (2015) European climate finance: securing the best return. Bruegel Policy Brief ISSUE 2015/03, 11 September 2015. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

Combating climate change is perhaps the most formidable public policy challenge of our times. Unmitigated climate change will be irreversible. It will place significant costs on future generations, and expose them to unexplored risks. To mitigate climate change, global coordination is indispensable. European Union citizens consider climate change a central problem. The EU and its member states have therefore put in place signficant and costly climate mitigation policies.

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