New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon

Climate change impacts in models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) are either poorly documented or based on a small number of dated studies. Here, the authors estimate new damages for the agricultural sector and find that updating this sector alone causes the SCC to increase substant...

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Autores principales: Frances C. Moore, Uris Baldos, Thomas Hertel, Delavane Diaz
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/433f1303fadb4a56aff309550198e0ee
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Sumario:Climate change impacts in models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) are either poorly documented or based on a small number of dated studies. Here, the authors estimate new damages for the agricultural sector and find that updating this sector alone causes the SCC to increase substantially.