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- April at Policy Integrity – April at Policy Integrity: Supreme Court Decides Cross-State Rule; EPA Mercury and Toxic Standards Upheld; In the News: Michael Livermore on the social cost of carbon; On the Docket: Comments to EPA on Regulating New Power Plants; In the Spotlight: Stephanie Tatham
- Costs of Climate Change May Prove High for Future – …have seriously underestimated the “social cost” of carbon emissions to future generations, according to a warning in the journal Nature. Social cost is a calculation in U.S. dollars of the future damage that might be done by the emission of one metric ton of carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas levels…
- Climate Models Underestimate Future Costs, Says Study – …pay more for today’s carbon emissions than what governments across the world currently understand. The climate models used by policymakers around the world to estimate the economic and social costs of CO2 emissions have to be improved according to Thomas Sterner, professor of Environmental Economics at the School of Business,…
- Pay Now or Pay More Later – …for the climate. Any benefit-cost analysis of these decisions ought to include their climate impact. If a particular decision will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions — building the Keystone XL pipeline, for example — that figure ought to go on the cost side of the ledger. If the decision…
- Gothenburg Scientist in Nature Journal: Climate Models Underestimate Costs to Future Generations – The seven scientists behind the article, due to be published 10 April, conclude that the reports by the UN climate panel serve an important function in setting the agenda for climate research. Yet the most important role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to inform the global…
- Policy Integrity Adviser Livermore Says Administration Underestimating Social Cost of Carbon – …in Washington surrounding the social cost of carbon, has the Obama administration been transparent enough with its modeling and final cost determination? How likely is a legal challenge to the administration’s current rule? During today’s OnPoint, Michael Livermore, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and a…
- Global Warming: Improve Economic Models of Climate Change – Costs of carbon emissions are being underestimated, but current estimates are still valuable for setting mitigation policy, say Richard L. Revesz, Peter H. Howard, Kenneth Arrow, Lawrence H. Goulder, Robert E. Kopp, Michael A. Livermore, Michael Oppenheimer, and Thomas Sterner in Nature.
- Global Warming: Improve Economic Models of Climate Change – Costs of carbon emissions are being underestimated, but current estimates are still valuable for setting mitigation policy, say Richard L. Revesz, Peter H. Howard, Kenneth Arrow, Lawrence H. Goulder, Robert E. Kopp, Michael A. Livermore, Michael Oppenheimer, and Thomas Sterner. On 31 March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released…
- Stanford Economists Say Social Cost of Carbon Too Low – …six other law and economics scholars, said the controversial “social cost of carbon” calculations developed by the federal government are too low, not too high, as conservatives argue.
- March Newsletter – March at Policy Integrity: Report on the social cost of carbon; In the News: Fast Company coverage of social cost of carbon report; Brief on offshore drilling leases; Advocacy training: coal finance; On the Docket: Policy brief on transportation emissions; Spotlight on Staff: Jack Lienke; Job Opening: Legal Fellow