Peter Howard
Economics Director
Peter Howard is the economics director at Policy Integrity, and a former economic fellow. Much of his work focuses on the social cost of carbon and integrated assessment models. He is the lead researcher for the Cost of Carbon Pollution Project, a collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC). He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, where his research focused on climate change, environmental policy, and agricultural policy. Howard also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College.
He can be reached at [email protected] or (212) 998-6093.
Reports
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Consensus on Carbon Dioxide Removal
A Large-Sample Expert Elicitation on the Future of CDR
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Enacting the “Polluter Pays” Principle
New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act and Its Impact on Gasoline Prices
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The Real Costs of Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing
A Review of BOEM’s Economic Analysis for Its Proposed Five-Year Program
Academic Articles
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Accounting for the Increasing Benefits From Scarce Ecosystems
As people get richer, and ecosystem services scarcer, policy-relevant estimates of ecosystem value must rise
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US Benefit-Cost Analysis Requires Revision
Letter in SCIENCE Supporting Proposed Adjustment to Discount Rates in Circular A-4
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Valuing the Future: Legal and Economic Considerations for Updating Discount Rates
Yale Journal on Regulation
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Climate-Society Feedback Effects
Be Wary of Unidentified Connections
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About Time
Recalibrating the Discount Rate for the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (Working Paper)
Op-Eds
Public Comments
