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The Social Cost of Carbon: using computational tools to inform climate change policy

David Anthoff (University of California, Berkeley)
E18-304

Abstract: I will talk about a recent large-scale effort to provide novel estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions. I will touch on three aspects: The first part will introduce the concept of the social cost of carbon and other greenhouse gases and give a brief overview of its use in the policy world. In the second part, I will talk about a study that innovates on all aspects of estimating social cost of greenhouse gases (Rennert et…

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