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- The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases and State Policy – …benefit from using the social cost of greenhouse gases to aid in making rational policy decisions in a transparent manner. Many states are already using these metrics in their decisionmaking. This report provides information on several issues related to the social cost of greenhouse gases, including discount rates, time horizons,…
- Biden Climate Efforts Won’t Be Stopped With GHG Cost Loss – …ultimately ends in the social cost of carbon and other metrics being struck down, that doesn't mean the end of the Biden administration's forward motion on climate change-related regulations, said Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law. To begin with, only…
- Expert Elicitation and the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases – …Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases can use the findings from expert elicitations to improve the U.S. federal government’s social cost of greenhouse gas estimates, which are used in regulatory cost-benefit analysis and other policy contexts. Our report highlights several component updates, incorporating data from expert elicitations,…
- Comments to Oregon PUC on the Social Cost of Carbon – Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed an executive order directing state agencies, including the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We submitted comments encouraging the PUC to use Social Cost of Carbon metrics to monetize the benefits of avoided greenhouse gas emissions.
- Comments on Petition for Correction on Social Cost of Carbon – …agencies involved in the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (IWG).
- Best Cost Estimate of Greenhouse Gases – …administration’s decision to withdraw the official estimate of the Social Cost of Carbon and disband the interagency working group that developed it, a group of prominent economists and lawyers, including several Policy Integrity staff members, have highlighted the metric’s continued validity for policymaking in recent letter published in the journal…
- As Concerns Mount, Environmentalists Seek To Raise Carbon ‘Cost’ Estimate – …default estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC), believing it will strengthen the case for strict greenhouse gas (GHG) rules and other emission controls just as concerns about irreversible climate change due to the emissions are mounting. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environmental Defense Fund and the Institute…
- The Economic Cost of Carbon Pollution Is Much Greater Than Estimated, Say Stanford Researchers – “Results like this should give a pause that maybe we should start being more cautious,” Peter Howard, an economist at NYU Law School’s Institute for Policy Integrity, told VICE News. “Maybe this doesn’t happen, but if it does it could be quite costly, and we should take this risk into…
- Letter to Senior Government Officials on Social Cost of Carbon Presentation – Today, Policy Integrity, with five national environmental organizations offered to senior officials in the Obama Administration recommendations on how the social cost of carbon (SCC) should be presented in greenhouse gas regulations.
- The Price of Ignoring Climate Change Is Far Higher Than We Think – …as part of the Cost of Carbon Pollution project, a trio of groups—the Environmental Defense Fund, NYU’s Institute for Policy Integrity, and the Natural Resources Defense Council—explain how the Obama administration is continuing to lowball these “social cost of carbon pollution” estimates. … The debate seems obscure, but it could…