Number: RL32762
Title: Greenhouse Gases and Economic Development: An Empirical Approach to Defining Goals
Authors: John Blodgett and Larry Parker, Resources, Science, and Industry Division 
Abstract: This analysis identifies those nations that have combined the highest per capita GDPs with the lowest intensities of greenhouse gas emissions. Taking those nations as exemplars, it then examines possible outcomes from pursuing competing goals  economic growth and development versus constraining greenhouse gases  that are confounding efforts, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, to address global climate change.
Pages: 24
Date: February 4, 2005