December 4, 2014

Calculating the Climate Damage Caused by Carbon Emissions

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

In the latest issue of the journal Science, a group of economists, including faculty fellow Billy Pizer, and lawyers argue for several improvements in the U.S. government's social cost of carbon figure--namely, establishment of a regular, transparent, and peer-reviewed process to ensure the figure is reliable and well-supported by the latest facts.