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- White House Restores Key Climate Measure Calculating Carbon’s Harm – …calculate and weigh the cost of climate change in its permitting, investment and regulatory decisions with a move to restore the “social cost of greenhouse gases,” which had been slashed under the Trump administration. Richard Revesz, a professor at New York University School of Law, said restoring the previous calculation…
- Best Cost Estimate of Greenhouse Gases – …Order 13783 disbanded the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, withdrew IWG’s official valuations, and instead instructed agencies to monetize climate effects using “the best available science and economics.” Yet IWG’s estimates already are the product of the most widely peer-reviewed models and best available data.
- Comments to the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases – As part of its process for revising the social cost of greenhouse gas values, the Interagency Working Group requested public input. We published and submitted five original reports on key issues, as well as a comment letter that summarizes the reports and offers several additional points for the Working Group’s…
- 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…
- ‘Social Cost’ of Carbon Emissions Rising but Still Underestimated, Experts Warn – …$37 per tonne of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, according to an updated estimate by the U.S. government. The Obama administration’s cost-of-carbon figure has been put to use in a variety of ways, including to justify energy efficiency rules put out by the Department of Energy, said Richard Revesz,…
- This One Number Could Change How the U.S. Handles Climate Change – …agencies to use the social cost of carbon as part of any cost-benefit analysis of new regulations. This is not to say that the Obama administration’s method was perfect. Peter Howard, an economist at New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, has identified significant damages that will result from climate…
- Comments to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Electric Resource Planning – …into Colorado’s ERP process, and we suggest using the Social Cost of Carbon to monetize greenhouse gas externalities.
- August 2016 at Policy Integrity – August 2016 at Policy Integrity: Court Rules on Social Cost of Carbon; Brief for Ozone Case; Hein Congressional Testimony; Regulating Toxic Chemicals; New Paper on Global Social Cost of Carbon
- Watch This Number Closely to See How Seriously Biden Will Tackle Climate Pollution – …experts hope Biden’s interim social cost of carbon is just an initial step toward a more aggressive policy next year. “The administration is taking a careful and legally sound approach in providing that a rigorous scientific process determine further updates,” said Richard Revesz. “A great deal of research suggests that…
- December 2016 at Policy Integrity – December 2016 at Policy Integrity: Brief for Carbon Standards Lawsuit; California Air Resources Board Comments; Revesz on Social Cost of Carbon Battle; Distributed Energy Valuation; Energy Storage