Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) CEO Gathering 2022
Atlanta, Georgia
Social Cost of Carbon (SCC)
Technically, the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide (SC-CO₂), and the social cost of other greenhouse gases such as methane (SC-CH₄, or SCM) or nitrous oxide (SC-N₂O, or SCN).
Pretty bad
And what we don’t know is even worse
Foreign Service Institute
U.S. State Department
UPenn Wharton
Energy Economics & Finance Seminar
How bad can it be?
We’ve learned quite a bit since the last IPCC report, and the news isn’t exactly good
Daily Climate Damage Should Feel More Like a Disaster
One-off events like Deepwater Horizon leave a lasting impression, but the normal burning of fossil fuels has an even worse impact.
UPenn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Philadelphia, PA
American Economic Association
Annual Meeting
Improving the social cost of nitrous oxide
by David R. Kanter et al.
Nature: "How climate coverage can drive change"
By Anna Nowogrodzki
Lawmakers Need to Do Whatever It Takes to Price Carbon
No policy should be excluded based on purist economic or environmentalist principles
For Effective Climate Policy, the First Step is the Hardest
After more than three decades of trying, Austria moves to tax carbon.
Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas
by A. Patrick Behrer, R. Jisung Park, Gernot Wagner, Colleen M. Golja, and David W. Keith
Peking University Financial Review
Cover Story | 封面
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Rome, Italy
ORF: Klimaerwärmung wird „verdammt teuer“
Gespräch mit Lukas Wieselberg, science.ORF.at
Costly tipping points
New research shows significant economic costs of climate risks.
Economics Needs a Climate Revolution
With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.
The Climate Tipping Point We Want
The green transition comes with costs; but they are well worth it, and they pale in comparison to the costs of inaction. The ever-falling costs of renewables have not eliminated the politics of climate change. But they certainly have made our choices much easier.