Developing a Social Cost of Carbon for US Regulatory Analysis: A Methodology and Interpretation

The US government recently developed a range of values representing the monetized global damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide (CO[subscript 2]) emissions, commonly referred to as the social cost of carbon (SCC). These values are currently used in benefit–cost analyses to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Greenstone, Michael, Kopits, Elizabeth, Wolverton, Ann
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85655