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- Costs, Confusion, and Climate Change – …that a “marginal abatement cost” (MAC) could be used as an alternative to the social cost of carbon (SCC). This article provides conceptual clarity about these metrics, focusing on how a MAC-based threshold could sensibly be used in climate policy, and explaining why it is not a substitute for the…
- The Social Cost of Carbon Turns Climate Change Into Dollars – The impacts of climate change are often described as small changes in temperature or massive emissions, which doesn’t always make sense to people, said Peter Howard, an economist at the Institute for Policy Integrity. “Putting it in dollar terms helps the public really understand what the magnitude of the climate…
- The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: A Guide for State Officials – …to weigh climate goals against other policy objectives. The social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) can help policymakers understand the costs and benefits of climate action and inaction. This new guide for state officials explains why the SC-GHG is a useful policy tool and how it can be applied.
- White House: Climate Law Could Reduce GHG Impact by $1.9T – …of society will be extraordinary. That’s exactly what the social cost of carbon shows.”
- Policy Integrity Research Shapes New Federal Climate Damage Estimates – In its updated climate damage estimates for greenhouse gas emisisons, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cited Policy Integrity scholarship and analysis dozens of times and adopted some of our key arguments. EPA calculated damages based on averaging three damage functions, one of which was based on a paper by Peter…
- EPA Floats Higher Climate Damage Values In Draft Carbon ‘Cost’ Update – …draft update to the social cost of carbon (SCC) metric that floats significantly higher estimates of the climate-related damage caused by greenhouse gases than the Biden administration’s interim values, as well as a new dynamic approach to setting the “discount rate” used to reduce the value of future benefits from…
- EPA Floats Sharply Increased Social Cost of Carbon – …began working on the social cost of methane and integrated it into some rulemakings before the Interagency Working Group undertook its own work. "The approaches that EPA took and that of the Interagency Working Group ultimately were consistent with each other — if that's any indication of what might be…
- A Key Climate Metric Gets an Overdue Update – …this problem by proposing a comprehensive update to the social cost of carbon. Consistent with the scientific and economics literature from independent researchers, the update would raise the metric’s central value from $51 to $190 for each ton of carbon-dioxide emissions in 2020.
- Maureen Cropper – …of Sciences Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon. Professor Cropper’s research has focused on valuing the health impacts and health benefits of environmental programs, especially program to reduce air pollution.
- Q&A: How Will a ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Increase Affect U.S. Climate Policy? – …its estimate of the social cost of carbon, which federal regulatory agencies use to measure the economic consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Livermore's 2022 article in the Yale Journal on Regulation, Costs, Confusion and Climate Change, coauthored with Justin Gundlach of New York University School of Law, looked at the…