Inequality, climate impacts on the future poor, and carbon prices

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 52, 2015, Pages 15827-15832

  Dennig, Francis ^a   Budolfson, Mark B ^a   Fleurbaey, Marc ^a   Siebert, Asher ^b   Socolow, Robert H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Damage distribution; Inequality; RICE; Social cost of carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORKING POOR; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORECASTING; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84952683314     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513967112     Document Type: Article

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