BACKGROUND The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
was established in 1992 to pursue the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a …

This article reviews the use of integrated assessment models (IAMs) in climate policy and
research at the global scale. Two different types of IAMs are discussed. First, there are …

Extreme weather events lead to significant adverse societal costs. Extreme Event Attribution
(EEA), a methodology that examines how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had …

Estimates of the social cost of carbon are the yardstick for climate policy targets. However,
there is great uncertainty and we do not know how estimates have evolved over time. Here I …

Earlier meta-analyses of the economic impact of climate change are updated with more
data, with three new results:(1) The central estimate of the economic impact of global …

How should carbon be taxed as a part of fiscal policy? The literature on optimal carbon
pricing often abstracts from other taxes. However, when governments raise revenues with …

Incorporating sustainability into supply chain management has become a critical issue
driven by pressures from governments, customers, and various stakeholder groups over the …

The proliferation and growing variety of climate-economy models and what are known as
integrated assessment models (IAMs) can make it difficult for someone interested in …

Empirical evidence suggests that variations in climate affect economic growth across
countries over time. However, little is known about the relative impacts of climate change on …

Many studies have estimated the social cost of carbon (SCC). We critically evaluate SCC
estimates, focusing on omitted cost categories, discounting, uncertainties about damage …