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DOI | 10.1038/NCLIMATE3298 |
Priority for the worse-off and the social cost of carbon | |
Adler, Matthew1; Anthoff, David2; Bosetti, Valentina3,4; Garner, Greg5,9; Keller, Klaus5,6,7; Treich, Nicolas8 | |
2017-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
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ISSN | 1758-678X |
EISSN | 1758-6798 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 7期号:6 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; Italy; France |
英文摘要 | The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a key tool in climate policy. The SCC expresses in monetary terms the social impact of the emission of a ton of CO2 in a given year. The SCC is calculated using a 'social welfare function' (SWF): a method for assessing social welfare. The dominant SWF in climate policy is the discounted-utilitarian SWF. Individuals' well-being numbers (utilities) are summed, and the values for later generations are reduced ('discounted'). This SWF has been criticized for ignoring the distribution of well-being and including an arbitrary time preference. Here, we use a 'prioritarian' SWF, with no time discount, to calculate the SCC. This SWF gives extra weight ('priority') to worse-off individuals. Prioritarianism is a well-developed concept in ethics and welfare economics, but has been rarely used in climate scholarship. We find substantial differences between the discounted-utilitarian and non-discounted prioritarian SCCs. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000402461300019 |
WOS关键词 | CLIMATE-CHANGE ; RISK-AVERSION ; CO2 EMISSIONS ; ECONOMICS ; STERN ; VIEW ; METHODOLOGY ; DEFENSE ; US |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/34657 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Duke Univ, Sch Law, Durham, NC 27708 USA; 2.Univ Calif Berkeley, Energy & Resources Grp, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; 3.Bocconi Univ, Dept Econ, I-20136 Milan, Italy; 4.FEEM, I-20136 Milan, Italy; 5.Penn State Univ, Earth & Environm Syst Inst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA; 6.Penn State Univ, Dept Geosci, University Pk, PA USA; 7.Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Engn & Publ Policy, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA; 8.Univ Toulouse Capitole, INRA, Toulouse Sch Econ, F-31000 Toulouse, France; 9.Princeton Univ, Woodrow Wilson Sch, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Adler, Matthew,Anthoff, David,Bosetti, Valentina,et al. Priority for the worse-off and the social cost of carbon[J]. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE,2017,7(6). |
APA | Adler, Matthew,Anthoff, David,Bosetti, Valentina,Garner, Greg,Keller, Klaus,&Treich, Nicolas.(2017).Priority for the worse-off and the social cost of carbon.NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE,7(6). |
MLA | Adler, Matthew,et al."Priority for the worse-off and the social cost of carbon".NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 7.6(2017). |
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