Governments across the world are coming under increasing pressure to invest heavily in
projects that have maturities of decades or even centuries. Key areas of concern include …

Abstract Models for supporting climate adaptation and mitigation planning, mostly in the form
of Integrated Assessment Models, are poorly equipped for aiding questions related to …

Abstract Under the UN Paris Agreement, countries committed to limiting global warming to
well below 2° C and to actively pursue a 1.5° C limit. Yet, according to the 2018 Economics …

The estimated value to society from climate change mitigation is highly sensitive to the long-
term social discount rate. Governmental discounting guidance has almost exclusively been …

A survey of the economic impact of climate change and the marginal damage costs shows
that carbon dioxide emissions are a negative externality. The estimated Pigou tax and its …

We analyze the role of ethical values in the determination of the social cost of carbon,
arguing that the familiar debate about discounting is too narrow. Other ethical issues are …

We contribute to population ethics by proposing and axiomatizing rank‐discounted critical‐
level generalized utilitarianism (RDCLU). Population ethics is needed for evaluation of …

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the
application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions …

A model which formalizes the interplay between green consumer culture and sustainable
technology is used to revisit the trade-off between economic growth and environmental …

The population ethics literature has long focused on attempts to avoid the repugnant
conclusion. We show that a large set of social orderings that are conventionally understood …