Discount rates, equity weights and the social cost of carbon

Energy Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1011-1019

  Hope, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Equity weights; Integrated assessment; Social cost of carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EQUITY WEIGHTS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL COST OF CARBON;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST; DISCOUNT RATE; EQUITY; MODELING;

EID: 39749175643     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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