Improve Economic Models of Climate Change

Scholarship

CO-AUTHORS Richard L. Revesz, Peter H. Howard, Kenneth Arrow, Lawrence H. Goulder, Robert E. Kopp, Michael Oppenheimer, and Thomas Sterner

PUBLISHER

Nature

DATE

2014-04-10

Michael A. Livermore

Costs of carbon emissions are being underestimated, but current estimates are still valuable for setting mitigation policy.

Kenneth Arrow et al., Improve Economic Models of Climate Change, Nature 173-175 (April 10, 2014).

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