Revisiting the social cost of carbon

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

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1518-1523

  Nordhaus, William D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; DICE model; Economics; Social cost carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DYNAMIC INTEGRATED MODEL OF CLIMATE AND THE ECONOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COST OF CARBON; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 85013078266     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1609244114     Document Type: Article

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