Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change

Faculti Editorial

UC Berkeley

Maximillian Auffhammer discusses how economists calculate the social cost of carbon and provides an overview of the past and currently used estimates. Auffhammer then discusses the calibration and estimation of economic damage functions, which map weather patterns transformed by climate change into economic benefits and damages. Image courtesy of Maximillian Auffhammer. Read Study

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