Paris Climate Agreement passes the cost-benefit test

Relative economic benefits of achieving temperature targets have not properly accounted for damages at higher temperatures. Here the authors integrate dynamic cost-benefit analysis with a damage-cost curve and show that the Paris Climate Agreement constitutes the economically optimal policy pathway...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicole Glanemann, Sven N. Willner, Anders Levermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13961-1