On August 5, Climate Impact Lab co-director Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform on the Lab’s newly published research on the…

New study from the Climate Impact Lab finds people in poor parts of the world are disproportionately vulnerable to the risk of death associated with increased heat

The social cost of carbon (SCC)—the cost to society from each ton of carbon dioxide emitted—is an essential tool for incorporating the cost of climate change into cost-benefit analyses for policy and other decision-making. This month, the US Government Accountability…

The data, based on decades of peer-reviewed research, provides the cumulative risk of flooding for more than 142 million homes and properties over a 30-year mortgage.