With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Pro…

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby

It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no…

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby

The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in…

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby

The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global…

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby

Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shif…

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby

If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some …

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby