EventsNovember 12, 2020

Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change

Climate Impact Lab co-director Sol Hsiang will be discussing the mortality consequences of climate change in a virtual seminar on Thursday November 12 at 11:00am EST. This seminar is part of the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics series hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is open to everyone interested in research on the economics of climate change. Registration and more information is available at the link below.

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Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
This paper estimates that the release of an additional ton of carbon dioxide today will cause mean damages to global mortality risk valued at $36.6 under a high emissions scenario and $17.1 under a moderate scenario, using a 2% discount rate that is justified by US Treasury rates over the last two decades. It is a core input to the Climate Impact Lab's Data-driven Spatial Climate Impact Model (DSCIM).

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