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The author presents a multi-impact economic valuation framework called the Social Cost of Atmospheric Release (SCAR … impacts. Values consistently incorporate health and agricultural impacts of air quality along with climate damages. The latter … include damages associated with aerosol-induced hydrologic cycle changes that lead to net climate benefits when reducing …
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The author presents a multi-impact economic valuation framework called the Social Cost of Atmospheric Release (SCAR … impacts. Values consistently incorporate health and agricultural impacts of air quality along with climate damages. The latter … include damages associated with aerosol-induced hydrologic cycle changes that lead to net climate benefits when reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983168
Based on an in-depth literature review and responses to a survey among OECD member countries, this paper discusses the use of flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations. Such mechanisms can provide flexibility as to how a given environmental improvement is achieved, regarding where...
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of GHG emission reductions. We consider three climate policy scenarios that reach radiative forcing levels in 2100 of … pollution is equal to €22 per abated ton of CO2 in Europe. Less strict climate policy scenarios generate overall smaller, but …
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347869
associated with climate change, and downplays the impact of current emissions on future generations. Our reanalysis explores the … effects of uncertainty about climate sensitivity, the shape of the damage function, and the discount rate. We show that the … climate sensitivity, high damages, and a low discount rate, the social cost of carbon could be almost $900/tCO2 in 2010 …
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associated with climate change, and downplays the impact of our current emissions on future generations. Our reanalysis explores … the effects of uncertainty about climate sensitivity, the shape of the damage function, and the discount rate. We show … better insights for climate policy than cost-benefit analysis. -- Social cost of carbon ; cost-benefit analysis ; climate …
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While the basic principles of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) are long-standing, the challenges entailed in applying these principles are constantly evolving. This paper reviews recent developments in environmental CBA since the publication of an OECD volume on this topic by Pearce et al. (2006)....
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to say that “elections have consequences.” For climate change in particular, the “social cost of carbon,” or more broadly … challenging to defend against an arbitrariness challenge. (4) A wide range of decisions – involving, for example, climate …
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