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The Social Cost of Carbon

General Economics 2023-10-20 v1 Physics and Society Economics

Abstract

The social cost of carbon is the damage avoided by slightly reducing carbon dioxide emissions. It is a measure of the desired intensity of climate policy. The social cost of carbon is highly uncertain because of the long and complex cause-effect chain, and because it quantifies and aggregates impacts over a long period of time, affecting all people in a wide range of possible futures. Recent estimates are around \80/tCO80/tCO_2$.

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@article{arxiv.2310.12760,
  title  = {The Social Cost of Carbon},
  author = {Richard S. J. Tol},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.12760},
  year   = {2023}
}