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Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
This paper estimates that the release of an additional ton of carbon dioxide today will cause mean damages to global mortality risk valued at $36.6 under a high emissions scenario and $17.1 under a moderate scenario, using a 2% discount rate that is justified by US Treasury rates over the last two decades. It is a core input to the Climate Impact Lab's Data-driven Spatial Climate Impact Model (DSCIM).

Published November 1, 2022

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Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Lab co-director Robert Kopp helped write the “Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I,” released by the United States Global Change Research Program. This comprehensive report provides the most up-to-date climate science assessment in the world. It was compiled by 51 authors, the majority of whom were drawn from federal agencies.

Published November 3, 2017

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Climate Change: Information on Potential Economic Effects Could Help Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Fiscal Exposure
U.S. Government Accountability Office
The GAO's new report draws heavily from two national-scale studies: one from the EPA and the other is the American Climate Prospectus, authored by Climate Impact Lab members. The federal auditors found that the federal government has not undertaken strategic government-wide planning to manage climate risks by using information on the potential economic effects of climate change to identify significant risks and craft appropriate federal responses.

Published October 24, 2017

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