Recalculating the social cost of carbon

"Over the last few decades, integrated assessment models (IAM) have provided insight into the relationship between climate change, economy, and climate policies. The limitations of these models in capturing uncertainty in climate parameters, heterogeneity in damages and policies, have given ris...

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Main Authors: Shayegh, Soheil, Bosetti, Valentina, Dietz, Simon, Emmerling, Johannes, Hambel, Christoph, Jensen, Svenn, Kraft, Holger, Tavoni, Massimo, Traeger, Christian, Van der Ploeg, Rick
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
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Language:English
Published: Milan 2018
FEEM
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19301887124911290699-Recalculating-the-social-cost-.htm
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author Shayegh, Soheil
Bosetti, Valentina
Dietz, Simon
Emmerling, Johannes
Hambel, Christoph
Jensen, Svenn
Kraft, Holger
Tavoni, Massimo
Traeger, Christian
Van der Ploeg, Rick
author_facet Shayegh, Soheil
Bosetti, Valentina
Dietz, Simon
Emmerling, Johannes
Hambel, Christoph
Jensen, Svenn
Kraft, Holger
Tavoni, Massimo
Traeger, Christian
Van der Ploeg, Rick
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description "Over the last few decades, integrated assessment models (IAM) have provided insight into the relationship between climate change, economy, and climate policies. The limitations of these models in capturing uncertainty in climate parameters, heterogeneity in damages and policies, have given rise to skepticism about the relevance of these models for policy making. IAM community needs to respond to these critics and to the new challenges posed by developments in the policy arena. New climate targets emerging from the Paris Agreement and the uncertainty about the signatories’ commitment to Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are prime examples of challenges that need to be addressed in the next generation of IAMs. Given these challenges, calculating the social cost of carbon requires a new framework. This can be done by computing marginal abatement cost in cost-effective settings which provides different results than those calculated using constrained cost-benefit analysis. Here we focus on the areas where IAMs can be deployed to asses uncertainty and risk management, learning, and regional heterogeneity in climate change impacts."
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publishDate 2018
publisher Milan
FEEM
spellingShingle Shayegh, Soheil
Bosetti, Valentina
Dietz, Simon
Emmerling, Johannes
Hambel, Christoph
Jensen, Svenn
Kraft, Holger
Tavoni, Massimo
Traeger, Christian
Van der Ploeg, Rick
climate change
economics
environmental policy
gas emission
social cost
Recalculating the social cost of carbon
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title Recalculating the social cost of carbon
topic climate change
economics
environmental policy
gas emission
social cost
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19301887124911290699-Recalculating-the-social-cost-.htm